March picks

Tue, Apr 14, 2015

“Random picks from all over the Internet”.

English

Turning the database inside-out with Apache Samza

A talk describing some drawbacks of the existing web architectures, which typically involves database with mutable state, caching layer and backend. Martin shows how you could benefit from using LinkedIn’s framework - Apache Samza. “At the moment, it seems to me that the main reason why systems are still being built with mutable databases is just inertia”, he says.
My Weird Ruby

A couple of really good advices from Thomas Reynolds: prefer records over classes, use laziness where applicable and design by contract.

The Recipe for the World’s Largest Rails Monolith by Akira Matsuda

There is a lot of fuss around microservices nowadays. These guys seem able to manage a large Rails app.