"Recent" Posts

• Lateral joins in Ecto without fragments

  As of Ecto 3.4.3 you can construct lateral joins without using fragments.

• Analyzing Anki data with Postgres

  Importing the Anki sqlite database into Postgres

• Fun with MVCC II

  The not so simple fix

• Fun with Multiversion Concurrency Control

  The simple fix that doesn't work

• ActiveRecord::Base.establish_connection considered harmful

  Somehow we were blowing past the connection pool limits without even filling the pools.

• No-downtime deploys with Unicorn

  As mentioned in my last post, a surprising number of Unicorn users do not take advantage of one of its best features, no-downtime deploys. Why? There are some common pitfalls that can make this difficult to setup. I want to help address these issues so that more people can make use of this amazing feature.

• Use Unicorn

  Unicorn is my favourite application server for Ruby web apps.

  I have been running Unicorn in production since October 2009 and it has been faster, more reliable, and more predictable than any of the other options I’ve used.