Tag Archives: Ruby

Monitoring Redis with MONITOR and WireShark

Posted on May 28, 2013 by Simeon Simeonov

At Swoop we use Redis extensively for caching, message processing and analytics. The Redis documentation can be pithy at times and recently I found myself wanting to look in more depth at the Redis wire protocol. Getting everything set up … Continue reading →

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One more vote for functional languages

Posted on March 4, 2013 by Simeon Simeonov

I’ve been doing a lot of work on startup anti-patterns recently so it seems fitting that I look at other things through that lens. Every few months I fall into the same debugging anti-pattern: I start using a debugger to … Continue reading →

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The trouble with Ruby

Posted on August 9, 2006 by Simeon Simeonov

Yakov Fain, a Java & Flash/Flex guru, notes that Ruby is climbing up the Tiobe Index and spends some time looking into why this this is the case. I like Ruby but I don’t see it becoming a mainstream language … Continue reading →

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Ruby favored by startups

Posted on August 1, 2006 by Simeon Simeonov

I’m starting to see more startups using Ruby and Ruby-on-Rails for three typical types of projects: Simple web sites, e.g., the 37signals properties. Web 2.0ish sites where XML will be passed back’n’forth for both AJAX and site integration purposes. Internal … Continue reading →

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