Scout Blog
Stuff we think matters
The State of Ruby on Rails in 2021
With the latest features introduced via the Ruby 3 and the Rails 6 updates, the framework seems to be set to become the perfect alternative for business-minded projects. Ruby on Rails has always been the convenient and easy-to-use solution for critical projects, and with its growing maturity and community, it is bound to get better.
Container Monitoring: Essential Tools + Best Practices
Containers and Microservices have become a modern and essential way to build products. If you want a smoother user experience then it's important to monitor your containers and applications for seamless performance.
15 Tips for Better Python Performance
While the Python language offers ease of use, that ease of use can also negatively impact performance. But how do you know if your python app's performance needs improvement? This article details all the tips and tricks you need to better your python performance.
Speakers Announced for SPOTcon 2021
SPOTcon 2021 is the latest digital conference for developers from around the world to meet, engage with, and learn about solutions that drive leading-edge transformation in application development.
3 Ways to Reuse Twig Templates in Symfony
Twig, which is founded by Symfony, is a modern template engine for PHP. Twig template provides us many features like reusing Twig templates, output escaping, debugging templates, etc.
Set up a CI/CD Pipeline with Cloud-Native Tools
In this post, we will look at what CI/CD and cloud-native essentially mean. We will also explore several cloud-native tools that you can use to set up a fully automated CI/CD pipeline for your application.
How Common Application Issues Kill Performance
As web applications scale and grow, several performance-limiting factors start coming into the picture and make things difficult. In this post, we’ll take a closer look at some of the most common application performance issues, and try to understand why they happen, and how they can be tackled.
How (and Why) to Use Ruby Enumerators
Enumerators are present everywhere throughout the Ruby language, and with the addition of the Enumerator class in Ruby 1.9, enumerators have become all the more important.
How To Detect and Prevent Memory Leaks
A memory leak is the gradual loss of available computer memory when a program (an application or part of the operating system) repeatedly fails to return memory that it has obtained for temporary use.
A Primer on Ruby Yield and Blocks
A look at how blocks and yield help make life easier for Ruby developers. We will also go through other Ruby keywords and concepts that are connected to blocks and understand how everything works together.
Latest Ruby Versions Updated in Real Time
Ruby 3 is set to turn a lot of heads with huge improvements in performance, memory management, static analysis, and coding standards, as well as the introduction of features like Ractors, automatic schedulers, unified typing, and so on.