Delaying Kafka Messages Processing with Karafka: A Deep Dive into Delayed Topics
Kafka is a popular distributed streaming platform that is commonly used for building real-time data…
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Kafka topics as code – declarative Kafka topics management in Ruby
Kafka topics are a fundamental concept in Apache Kafka. Topics are logical names or labels…
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Karafka Web UI – Your Ruby and Rails out-of-the-box Kafka UI
I'm thrilled to announce the new and shiny addition to the Karafka ecosystem: Karafka Web.…
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Ruby concurrency is hard: how I became a Ruby on Rails contributor
For the past several weeks, I've been trying to fix a cranky spec in Karafka…
RSpec story about disappearing classes
ActiveSupport#descendants can be slow. In a bigger system with layers of descendants, finding all of…
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Reduce your method calls by 99.9% by replacing Thread#pass with Queue#pop
When doing multi-threaded work in Ruby, there are a couple of ways to control the…
Controlling Elgato Key Light under Ubuntu with Ruby
Recently I’ve acquired Elgato Key Light. It is a WiFi controllable LED lighting panel. The…
Reading the uncompressed GZIP file size in Ruby without decompression
There are cases where you have a compressed GZIP file for which you want to…
RubyGems dependency confusion attack side of things
Note: This article is not to deprecate any of the findings and achievements of Alex…
How requiring a gem can mess up your already running application
Introduction Ruby’s dynamic nature is both its advantage and disadvantage. Being able to reopen system…