What a bold statement, especially coming from someone who makes his living around programming.
Decades in the software industry exposed me to many hype cycles. No-Code solutions, Blockchain and Cryptocurrency, and most recently the rise of Large Language Models (LLM) and AI technology. But in contrast to the earlier hype, something feels different this time.
I love Rails. Most of it I truly appreciate as a developer, but there are some aspects that I do not like. The most heinous of these from my perspective is default_scope. I dislike it so much that I was even compelled to write about it!
In Rails, you use scopes to define commonly used queries, such as getting active users, archived posts, and so on.
The rapid development of Large Language Models (LLMs) changed the way how we work. Tech companies have released their own models for the public to use, or provide them as a service through APIs and software products.
One field that embraced this technological wave is (unsurprisingly) software development. As LLMs are now able to read entire codebases, compose code with just a prompt, and consolidate information from the internet, this opens up a new opportunity for software developers.
Redis and Sidekiq are popular libraries used by Ruby applications to handle features like caching, queues, and background processing. Capabilities like these are important for growing web applications, and as such require monitoring to ensure they are running smoothly.
There are several solutions in the market that you can use to monitor your Redis instance and check for potential problems. But did you know that Redis and Sidekiq already provide useful APIs you can use to roll out your own monitoring solution?
In Part 1 we created a simple library called KantanLogicthat we can use to manage application logic in lieu of other popular libraries. Our library has these main features:
In our last example, we have a class called CreateAccount that creates a user account and sends a welcome email. When using KantanLogic, the service looks like this: