Posted inPerformance Ruby Software
Ruby Floats: When 2.6x Faster Is Actually Slower (and Then Faster Again)
Update: This article originally concluded that Eisel-Lemire wasn't worth it for Ruby. I was wrong.…
Announcing YARD-Lint: Keep Your Ruby Documentation Solid
TL;DR: YARD-Lint catches documentation issues, just like RuboCop for code. Star it and use it…
When Your Hash Becomes a String: Hunting Ruby’s Million-to-One Memory Bug
Every developer who maintains Ruby gems knows that sinking feeling when a user reports an…
Announcing llm-docs-builder: An Open Source Tool for Making Documentation AI-Friendly
I am excited to announce the release of llm-docs-builder, a library that transforms Markdown documentation…
Posted inasync Karafka Performance
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 inpassivequeue Performance Rails
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…
Posted inapache kafka Karafka rdkafka
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…
Posted inapache kafka Karafka rpc
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…