When Responsibility and Power Collide: Lessons from the RubyGems Crisis
The Ruby community experienced significant turbulence in September 2025 when Ruby Central forcibly took control…
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WaterDrop Meets Ruby’s Async Ecosystem: Lightweight Concurrency Done Right
Ruby developers have faced an uncomfortable truth for years: when you need to talk to…
Posted inconference Rails Ruby
Past, Present, Future, and Brotherly Love: My Final RailsConf Journey
A few weeks have passed since RailsConf 2025, which was running from July 8th to…
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Announcing Passive Queue: The Rails Background Job System That Transcends Processing
0ms processing time. Infinite scalability. 100% success rate. Zero failures. ← Give it a star…
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The 60-Second Wait: How I Spent Months Solving the Ruby’s Most Annoying Gem Installation Problem
Notice: While native extensions for rdkafka have been extensively tested and are no longer experimental,…
Karafka 2.5 and Web UI 0.11: Next-Gen Consumer Control and Operational Excellence
Introduction Imagine pausing a problematic partition, skipping a corrupted message, and resuming processing - all…
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From pidfd to Shimanami Kaido: My RubyKaigi 2025 Experience
Introduction I just returned from RubyKaigi 2025, which ran from April 16th to 18th at…
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Breaking the Rules: RPC Pattern with Apache Kafka and Karafka
Introduction Using Kafka for Remote Procedure Calls (RPC) might raise eyebrows among seasoned developers. At…
The Silent Guardian: Why Bundler Checksums Are a Game-Changer for Your Applications
Introduction: A Fragile Trust The Ruby ecosystem relies heavily on RubyGems.org as the central platform…
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Under the Hood: Enhancing Karafka’s CPU and Memory Efficiency
Introduction Now and then, I like to go on a performance improvement hunt because life…