When doing multi-threaded work in Ruby, there are a couple of ways to control the execution flow within a given thread. In this article, I will be looking at Thread#pass and Queue#pop and how understanding each of them can help you drastically optimize your applications. Thread#pass – what it is and how does it work …
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Bug hunting Recently I’ve been working with one small application that would gradually become slower and slower. While there were many reasons for it to happen, I found one of them interesting. To give you a bit of context: the application was a simple single topic legacy Kafka consumer. I rewrote it to Karafka, and …
Note: This case is valid also for the “old” #method method usage. The reason why I mention that in the “dot-colon” context, is the fact that due to the syntax sugar addition, this style of coding will surely be used more intensely. Note: This feature has been reverted. See details here: bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/16275. Note: Benchmarks and …
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