Developer ! Are you losing your rat race ?
A rat race is an endless, self-defeating, or pointless pursuit. It conjures up the image of the futile efforts of a lab rat trying to escape while running...
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How I fixed ‘devicemapper’ error when deploying my Docker app
A few months ago, I started continuously deploying my latest side project to a Digital Ocean box. If you are interested, here is the full story of how I did ...
5 minutes hack to speed up RSpec in Rails 5 using in-memory SQLite
Here is the story : you have a Rails 5 app that uses RSpec, but your RSpec suite is getting slower and slower to run. You’ve already considered some solution...
A Plain English Introduction To Paxos Protocol
A few weeks ago, I had to have a look at the distributed consensus protocol Paxos. Even though I know its purpose and I’ve built and used distributed systems...
What Happens to Non-Enthusiast Programmers in the Long Run ?
A few months ago, after receiving good feedback from my regular readers, I posted my latest article Is There Any Room for the Not-Passionate Developer ? on H...
Verify the Big O Complexity of Ruby Code in RSpec
It might be possible to discover performance regressions before running your long and large scale benchmarks !
How I got my feet wet with machine learning with ‘The First 20 Hours’
I’m currently wrapping up an alpha of a unit testing ruby gem that allows to assert the complexity of a piece of code. It’s the result of an experiment to le...
Overclocking a Scrum Team to 12
From Wikipedia : Overclocking is configuration of computer hardware components to operate faster than certified by the original manufacturer …