Playing Wingspan at Rubyconf “bird” game night.

Hey, #rubyconf, the slides from my "Lucky You" talk are now at speakerdeck.com/skmetz/lucky-y… References are at the end. I was nervous about giving you this talk. I should have known better. Thanks.

Ruby(conf) on Rails

Seattle makes some impressively weird buildings

Rails 6.0.2 has been released! weblog.rubyonrails.org/2019/12/13/Rai…

Some Advanced Sidekiq-fu: Workload Isolation with Queue Sharding mikeperham.com/2019/12/17/wor…

Sidekiq 6.0.4 has been released with an ActiveJob fix and a shiny new Pause button in Sidekiq Pro's /queues page. github.com/mperham/sideki…

I published 41 (!!!) pieces of free content on Ruby and Rails performance in 2019, most of it on my email newsletter. I've compiled a full list here: mailchi.mp/railsspeed/spe…

2000 customers @ $39/month is almost $1M/year. - You don't need to dominate the market. - You don't need to disrupt anything. - You don't need to conquer the competition. You can add 1 new customer/day & before you know it, you'll have a $1M/yr machine. Wouldn't that be enough?

PSA: I've rejoined Twitter with a new personal account at @getajobmike. Feel free to follow! 😎

If you struggle with #Redis eating too much memory, you have a lot of #Sidekiq jobs scheduled or you do cache of some data. There is a free tool Redis Insight that allows you to analyze keys in Redis DB. You can connect to DB or analyze backup rdb file redislabs.com/redisinsight/

💪Published a massive article on background jobs in #Rails that covers everything I could think of: * Tooling trade-offs (ActiveJob? Sidekiq? DJ?) * 80/20 best practices for writing jobs * UI patterns (why doesn't anyone ever cover this?) boringrails.com/articles/large…

Looking to proxy Sidekiq's Web UI with nginx? If you have asset loading problems, try this one easy trick to make it work! github.com/mperham/sideki…

The Sidekiq gem server had SSL connectivity issues due to an intermediate CA cert expiring. This has been fixed.

If you are having issues connecting to the Sidekiq gem server today, it's because your CA certificates are woefully out of date. On Ubuntu: sudo apt update && sudo apt install ca-certificates