25 July 2021

17 links · Sunday

Sargable Queries & MUL Indexes; or Why My Query is Slow

You’re on Ops. Debugging Error-s in Invoicing Rails app, as usual. They’re stored in MySQL and accessed through ActiveRecord and some helper methods. They’ve already been updated with a status_message, so now it’s time to dig in and investigate.

Code Review is Work - Tyler Cipriani

Software companies have tried to measure productivity with time tracking, counting closed bugs, and, infamously, by counting lines of code. But what are organizations doing about the time developers lose waiting for code review?

Could Vaccinating Young People Before Old People Save More Lives?

Vaccines are tackling the COVID-19 epidemic in two ways: reducing the severity of infections, and preventing their transmission. Both mechanisms save lives, but the vaccination strategies that leverage each can be conflicting.

Download file via ajax

Hello and welcome 😀, In a previous post we discussed how to create a zip file on demand on the server so that it can be served via Web API. The code for the previous post and this one for can be fo…

Welcome to Cloudflare Impact Week

This week we kick off Cloudflare's first Impact Week. We originally conceived the idea of the week as a way to highlight some of the things we were doing as a company around our environmental, social, and governance (ESG) initiatives.

Agile at 20: The Failed Rebellion

The Agile Manifesto turned 20 this year, and there are two facts that seem self-evident: Agile, as a label, won; nobody wants to be called non-Agile.