Database unique constraints in Rails

TLDR

ActiveRecord uniqueness validations are not good enough for distributed systems. Instead, database-level unique constraints must be used. When they are, custom logic must be implemented on the Rails side to trap these errors and…

Introducing migr8 a Concurrent Redis Migration Utility Written in Go

Here at Reverb, we’ve got quite a few places that we like to store our data. One of those places is Redis. We use Redis in quite a few ways including our job queues for Sidekiq and our analytics tracking for our…