What is Sidekiq? At Custom Ink we leverage Sidekiq as a job scheduler to execute batch processing workflows. This post is part of a series, "Sidekiq Rundown," where we will explore various features of Sidekiq. Sidekiq enables us to efficiently parallelize jobs/tasks reliably and sidekiq queues allow the workloads to stack up. The main point of utilizing a job scheduler is to manage the background execution of jobs that orchestrate business activity automation. Using an open-source technology solution like Sidekiq...
Part of an series while developing, Lamby - Simple Rails & AWS Lambda Integration using Rack 🚂🐑.
Most Rails applications require over a dozen environment variables to configure themselves or use popular gems. Most notable is the DATABASE_URL or others like SECRET_KEY_BASE which is used by Rails itself to sign encrypted cookies for sessions.
Custom Ink leverages open source tools and practices that unlock Day Zero Deployments for new engineers and frictionless development for our entire engineering organization! Here's how!
Move over basic "Hello World" functions - get ready to super charge your next Lambda project with the most productive web framework on the most convenient cloud infrastructure! Following up from my Arlington Ruby presentation AWS Lambda & Ruby/Rails with SAM last week - I am very excited to share today how you can get started with Rails under AWS Lambda.
At Custom Ink, we are always working on new technologies and love to share with the community. Ken Collins recently presented on using Ruby on Rails with Lambda at Arlington Ruby. We recorded the presentation to share. Description A progressive dive into how to use Ruby with AWS Lambda via their serverless application framework SAM to locally develop, test and ship your function to the cloud. Along the way we will cover topics on how to build native extensions, extend...
Deconstructed: Photo by Todd McLellan.
Knolling is the process of arranging different objects so that they are at 90 degree angles from each other. The term originates from a janitor named Andrew Kromelow in 1987 who would arrange tools using this method for a popular furniture brand called Knoll. Commonly photographed from above, knolling is a highly popular method for promoting products from companies like Instagram to Apple.