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Pulling off zero-downtime PostgreSQL migrations with Bucardo and Terraform

At Getsafe, we’ve been running our web services and primary databases in Heroku from the start, but we recently decided to move to AWS +…

Jun 17

Pulling off zero-downtime PostgreSQL migrations with Bucardo and Terraform

Jun 17

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How we cut down our CI build times by 50%

Here’s a story of how we improved our CI run times in one of our core Ruby services by up to 50%.

Apr 12, 2023

How we cut down our CI build times by 50%

Apr 12, 2023

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Solving a distributed authorisation problem with a local library

How we introduced a nifty gem to make shared authorization easier

Aug 11, 2022

Solving a distributed authorisation problem with a local library

Aug 11, 2022

Blogging update: From Medium to dev.to and beyond

Hi guys👋.

Jan 4, 2021

Jan 4, 2021

What’s the big deal about immutability?

Hey guys! I wrote an article over on dev.to taking a brief look at what immutability is, and some reasons why devs might make a bug fuss…

Apr 20, 2020

Apr 20, 2020

Helpful Node.js testing utilities

I wrote a post about some tools I’ve found useful when testing my Node.js apps and libraries. Go check it out over at dev.to. And if you…

Apr 20, 2020

Apr 20, 2020

The UX of URLs

Writing better addresses for the Web

Sep 3, 2019

The UX of URLs

Sep 3, 2019

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Bits and Pieces

Can Redux be Used on the Server?

Redux is a great tool for managing state in complex frontend apps. Is it possible to extend this to the server?

Jan 9, 2019

Can Redux be Used on the Server?

Jan 9, 2019

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Good Engineering Practices while Working Solo

When you’ve got to go it alone, how do you make the most out of it?

Jan 2, 2019

Good Engineering Practices while Working Solo

Jan 2, 2019

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Understanding Throttling and Debouncing

Improve your app performance by leveraging these two techniques

Dec 24, 2018

Understanding Throttling and Debouncing

Dec 24, 2018

Shalvah

Shalvah

Not on Medium anymore🤢. I write about intriguing software engineering challenges @ blog.shalvah.me

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