Understanding Disk I/O: When Should You Be Worried?
Disk I/O encompasses the input/output operations on a physical disk.
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Making sense of ActiveRecord joins, includes, preload, and eager_load
Like a pair of jumper cables, ActiveRecord's joins , includes , preload , and eager_load methods are incredibly useful, but also very dangerous when used incorrectly. Knowing when and where to use each approach - and even when to combine them - can save you considerable trouble.
Understanding Heroku Error Codes with Scout APM
If you are hosting your application with Heroku, and find yourself faced with an unexplained error in your live system. What would you do next? Perhaps you don’t have a dedicated DevOps team, so where would you start your investigation? With Scout APM of course! We are going to show you how you can use Scout to find out exactly where the problem lies within your application code. We are going to walk through two of the most common Heroku error codes and show you how to diagnose the problem with Scout quickly and efficiently.
How to use Mint, an awesome HTTP library for Elixir - Part 02
In our previous post we looked at how to set up and use Mint to make a simple GET request to fetch the contents of a README file from a Github repository. In this post let us continue building our Awesome Toolbox and add some more functionality.
Prometheus and Docker: Monitoring Your Environment
What Are We Doing Here? Coming back from Monitorama last week, I had a chance to sit back and start playing with some tools to see how they worked. Prometheus is a pretty ubiquitous tool in the monitoring space, is pretty easy to spin up, and most importantly (for this ...
Debugging with Rails Logger
If you are a Rails developer, you have probably used Rails Logger. Here is how to get the most out of it.
Monitorama 2019 - Portland, Oregon
Talks from industry experts and community leaders discuss the newest approaches in monitoring and observability. Find out which tools and techniques are in use at some of the largest web architectures in the world.
Which Ruby Background Job Framework is Right for You
If you've been around the Ruby/Rails ecosystem for a bit you've likely heard the term 'background job' or 'offline processing'. But what does that actually mean? How do you know which tasks are suitable to be processed 'in the background'? Once you define those tasks, how do pick the right ...
How to copy output of a function to your clipboard in Elixir or Ruby
Having the ability to drive your development using just a keyboard is very productive. However, when you are using a terminal and have to copy the output of a command to use it somewhere else, it breaks your flow, you need to move your hands away from your keyboard, use ...
Understanding Linux CPU stats
Your Linux server is running slow, so you follow standard procedure and run top . You see the CPU metrics: But what do all of those 2-letter abbreviations mean? The 3 CPU states Let's take a step back. There are 3 general states your CPU can be in: Idle , ...
Container Orchestration in 2019
How are you deploying your applications in 2019? Are you using containers yet? According to recent research over 80% of you are . If you are within this group, were you initially sold on the idea of containers but found that in reality, the complexity involved with this approach makes it a difficult trade-off to justify? The community is aware of this and has come up with a remedy to ease the pain, and it’s called container orchestration. So whether you are using containers or not, let’s take a closer look at container orchestration and find out what you need, what its used for and who should be using it.
Building Docker Containers for our Rails Apps
How can we take our existing Ruby on Rails applications and run them inside a Docker Container? In a recent post, we talked about Docker containers, and what you should know about them. Hopefully we...