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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.
Python Memory Management: The Essential Guide
Python's memory management involves a private heap that is used to store your program’s objects and data structures.
5 hard-earned lessons from a decade of Rails performance work
The last 3,650 days of my professional life have been focused on making Rails apps faster. Below are five lessons I've learned the hard way. 1. Facts alone won't convince the business folk to care about performance The typical pitch to prioritize making an app faster & more reliable goes ...
Performance Impact of Using Ruby on Rails View Partials
Ruby on Rails view partials can help keep your codebase DRY (Don’t Repeat Yourself), but misusing them can have a significant performance impact. In this blog post, we’ll describe when you should avoid using view partials and the alternatives.
Container Orchestration Tools Explained
While containers by themselves are extremely useful, they can become quite challenging to deploy, manage, and scale across multiple hosts in different environments. Container orchestration is another fancy word for streamlining this process.