Tech Tales

Elixir/Phoenix deployments using Distillery

Published

26 Nov 2016

Author

Yuva

Co-founder

Deploy Elixir/Phoenix apps using Distillery plugin

React.js

Published

16 Sep 2016

Author

Revath S

APIs supporting snake_case and camelCase with Rails

Published

25 Aug 2016

Author

Yuva

Co-founder

Supporting API conventions for client like reactjs can be quite tricky. This post talks about approach to make APIs accessible using snakecase or camelCase.

Continuous Deployment using Docker Cloud

Published

25 Jul 2016

Author

Emil Soman

Working with Rails, Webpack and Heroku

Published

08 Apr 2016

Author

Kashyap

Deploying a Rails app with Webpack asset management on Heroku can be tricky. However, Heroku provides lifecycle hooks on its NodeJs buildpack that will help make this easier.

Understanding Exit Signals in Erlang/Elixir

Published

29 Feb 2016

Author

Emil Soman

Erlang is a powerful concurrent programming language that has Processes as a first class citizen. These are isolated by default. Just like in Unix, these processes can communicate using Signals. In this post we will see how to achieve that in Elixir.

Visualizing Parallel Requests in Elixir

Published

15 Jan 2016

Author

Emil Soman

Elixir, built on the battle-tested Erlang VM, is a language that has concurrency as its core ideas. I will introduce a monitoring utility shipped with the VM that helps us visualize HTTP requests.

New in ActiveRecord

Published

23 Dec 2015

Author

Kashyap

Rails 5 has a new feature added to ActiveRecord that makes working with batch data much more efficient. The `Model.in_batches` function passes a batch of records wrapped inside an ActiveRecord collection.

Say goodbye to vendor prefixes with Autoprefixer

Published

25 Sep 2015

Author

Girish

Autoprefixer is a tool that adds vendor prefixes to CSS based on the usage patterns and current state of support. This results in clean code and smaller CSS files.

DIY Ruby CPU profiling - Part IV

Published

18 Jul 2015

Author

Emil Soman

Ruby's TracePoint API is very powerful for building custom profilers. As the final post of the DIY CPU profiler series, this post will introduce how to get method runtime statistics and generate relevant graphs.