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by mperham 10y ago
`crystal play` is a pretty good replacement for a REPL.
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by mperham 10y ago
Have you considered using JRuby with Sidekiq?
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by mperham 10y ago
Great interview with a lot of good advice for anyone starting their own OSS-based business. Making EE "open source" (not "Open Source") is a brave move but I think anyone who's done this work before knows that havin
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by mperham 10y ago
How do you process a million jobs in parallel across many machines? How do you schedule a job to run in a week? I'm the author of Sidekiq and not trying to debate; I'm simply ignorant of how Erlang, BEAM and the ecosystem solve t
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by mperham 10y ago
Yep, that's a huge problem with "sustainable" OSS: it's wonderful to get a one-time $50k grant but if you expect to spend the next 10 years maintaining a reasonably complex/sized project, that $5k/yr is still m
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by mperham 10y ago
Absolutely. I would change a few things (my pricing model should have been subscription-based from day one) but on the whole the business has wound up almost exactly where I intended it to be.
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by mperham 10y ago
OSS helped because I could build it in my spare time with little investment or risk. I spent the first two years building Sidekiq and Sidekiq Pro and was able to build up an audience by blogging and tweeting. I spent 15 years working at va
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by mperham 10y ago
Side note: your blog content doesn't show up at all with JS disabled.
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by mperham 11y ago
TLS.
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by mperham 11y ago
htop is an amazing upgrade to plain old top. Thank you for your work on this!
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by mperham 11y ago
Sadly due to copyright law, malware is one of the safest things to publish. Who's going to bring a copyright claim?
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by mperham 11y ago
No worries, I just wanted to make sure you didn't have access to super secret Ruby usage numbers that I didn't!
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by mperham 11y ago
As of today, Resque has 6,308,611 downloads. Sidekiq has 5,669,265 downloads. Can you explain why you think "order of magnitude"?
554.
by mperham 11y ago
This was fixed in Ruby 2.0.
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by mperham 11y ago
They do. You can transfer a repo to another user account. GitHub even supplies a Redirect for the old URL.
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Sidekiq 4.0 now available(mikeperham.com)
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by mperham 11y ago
I also noticed they vest over six years, not four. Very unusual in my experience and means that they're effectively giving 0.6%, 0.15%/yr. https://github.com/clef/handbook/blob/master/Hiring%20
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by mperham 11y ago
Because users don't read docs. They don't understand these tools. They don't catch on that two completely different use cases require two completely different configurations and two completely different instances of Redis.
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by mperham 11y ago
I'm glad antirez spoke up and clarified. I do think Redis is perfectly acceptable as a cache if you make a few config tweaks and run a second instance. Many of the developers I work with are unfamiliar with Redis. Maybe they've
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by mperham 11y ago
Can someone explain what value HFT actually provides to society at large? Why not add a one cent tax to every trade and wipe out HFT completely?
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Introducing Sidekiq Enterprise(mikeperham.com)
4 points by mperham 11y ago|0 comments
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by mperham 11y ago
This is because caching should be done as coarsely as possible. Caching views and entire pages is the common case.
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by mperham 11y ago
I, too, am an OSS developer who makes a living off my projects. Money is very important to me but so is my time. Like antirez, I want to focus on building the best features and products I can and not spend time looking for investment, hir
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by mperham 11y ago
Yep, Sidekiq is my full-time job. I choose to sell a closed-source product rather than support. Selling support means I would be incentivized to provide poor documentation and/or make it complex/hard to setup/manage. Inste
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by mperham 11y ago
Thanks for mentioning me. I'm happy to answer questions. You're absolutely right though: your project is only as valuable as the problem you are solving. When someone told me early on that switching from Resque to Sidekiq was sa
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Inspeqtor Pro Is Now Open Source(mikeperham.com)
3 points by mperham 11y ago|0 comments
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by mperham 11y ago
I thought it was "Ford Perfect" for a decade before realizing it's spelled "Ford Prefect" in all the HHGTTG books. The mind sees what it wants to see.
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The Zen of Burnout(matthewkirk.com)
2 points by mperham 11y ago|0 comments
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by mperham 12y ago
If you're going to give benchmark numbers, please also give details about the system in use. Notably this is missing the actual MRI version in use and the global method cache has changed fundamentally between major releases.
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by mperham 12y ago
Sidekiq runs 25 worker threads by default. MRI will context switch upon I/O so typical server-side applications will get plenty of concurrency, even with the GIL, because they spend lots of time talking to the DB, memcached, redis, 3r

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