Fretboards and Motherboards

Forms and Semantic HTML in React

Recently I was debugging some React code that was allowing a form to…

How We Updated 10+ Million DB Rows

Here At Reverb, our mission is to make the world more musical. So far, we’ve seen millions of…

Sublayouts in Rails in 3 easy steps

Let’s say your app has a special area such as a dashboard which has its own layout, but you still want to inherit everything the parent layout has, such as the header and footer.

Conditional Validations with Rails

Adding validations to your ActiveRecord models always starts out pretty simple. But as your app grows, your business rules compound in complexity and your data can become untidy. Oftentimes we require that certain models are validated differently under different…

Sidekiq Pro — Programatically get status of all batches

Sidekiq Pro comes with a nice web interface for managing your batch jobs, but here at Reverb we’re never satisfied with nice web interfaces :)

Cheap and cheerful config storage using DynamoDB

Recently we implemented a utility that needed to store a bit of state between runs. This script could run on a number of machines (well, VMs) so relying on local filesystem was not a good idea.

How We Decreased GraphQL Latency by 60%

At Reverb, we like to learn quickly and much of our learning comes from experimentation…

Three excellent Rails architecture videos

If you’re growing a large system in Rails and have hit pain points with fat models, TDD speed, and code organization, here are three of my favorite talks that have changed the way I think about growing Rails applications.

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…