All Posts By “Thuva Tharma“
Are Your Cache-Control Directives Doing What They Are Supposed to Do?
Cache-Control directives are pretty straightforward to understand. They're
easy to use as well if you assume that all the caches between your end user
and application correctly implement the spec. Unfortunately, as with any spec,
you can't make that assumption.
Background Processing: Use Einhorn to Spawn and Manage Worker Processes
When building a custom background processing system, at one point, you need to worry about how you spin up and manage multiple worker processes. This is where most people reinvent the the wheel, and write custom code. Don't reinvent the wheel, and use Einhorn instead.
3 Ways to Create Classes in Ruby
Out of the box, there are 3 ways to create classes in Ruby. Find out how to use all 3 options, and learn when to use one option over another.
Simple Ways to Protect an API: HTTP Basic Authentication and HTTP Token Authentication
Having a limited number of consumers for an API lets you keep the authentication really simple for that API. Let's explore HTTP Basic Authentication and HTTP Token Authentication as the simple solutions in this scenario.
How You Nest Modules Matters in Ruby
Ruby provides two different syntaxes to nest modules (and classes). Most Rubyists think that the syntaxes are interchangeable. But, the the code may behave differently depending on the choice of syntax.
Benchmarking JSON Generation in Ruby
Find out how RABL, ActiveModel Serializers, and plain Ruby presenters perform relative to each other when they are used to generate JSON.