The Blog: January 2010
Getting started with data_fabric
The data_fabric gem “provides flexible database connection switching for ActiveRecord”. If you’re not concerned with database sharding, you might want to skip this blog post. Or not. Either way, I’m not going to be offended.
I Am Git (And So Can You!)
It’s amazing how a few months can change your mindset around the version control system you use. Ever since I joined Agora Games in May 2008, we have used Subversion (SVN). Subversion is a fine version control system. We have one new project using Subversion and we will probably have a few legacy projects that will always use Subversion. However, last year, one of our project teams made the switch to Git and ever since then, new projects have been using Git.
Scaling Ruby and Rails Part 1
I wish scaling applications and systems these days consisted solely of “Just Add Scaling!“. But you know what? It’s not. I also forget where I read it, but the quote went something like, “Programming languages don’t scale, architectures scale.” Scaling is driven by proper iterative design, implementation and testing.