As with anything in the technology field, there is no one size fits all solution… And even kubernetes solving a big amount of problems you might have when exposing and scaling your application, it also brings some problems that you need to weight before deciding if this is the right technology for you or not….
Category: opinion
Three things that make a senior Ruby developer (and how to get there)
This is a very opinionated post, dealing mostly with what I think makes a senior developer, the main focus will be Ruby because that is my main language today, but most of the things I’m commenting here are completely independent of programming language. Probably lots of people have a different idea of what is a…
Beware of rails default_scope – it might come back to bite you
Beware of default scope, most of the times it appears to be helpful, it will just be causing you hidden bugs to deal with later
Do not trust ActiveRecord data consistency validations, delegate that to the database
Of course you can still use AR validations, that is not my point. But data consistency related validations should not trust AR for that, for example, if you have a “unique” constraint, and you are just trusting the database, it is really easy to break the DB consistency if for some reason you have a…
What do you need to know to put your app in production in Ruby, Python, .NET, Java, …
Ok, this is just my opinion, and if you are a junior developer you do not need to know how to put anything in production, but it is your responsibility to learn before you get promoted to anything else than Junior. And I’m not talking just about Ruby developers here, any developer that is not…