If you’ve ever used a computer before; it’s likely you’ve experienced a hard drive failure, or you know someone who’s lost a bunch of data, or you’ve been told horror stories from someone. Hard drives fail, it’s not a matter of if.. it’s a matter of when. Most... [Read More]

One of the best things you can do to improve the performance of your Rails application is implementing a CDN to serve up your content. Primarily assets and static images. Using a service like Amazon CloudFront allows you to take advantage of powerful edge caching servers that are physically distributed... [Read More]

I recently discovered Advanced Tomato, and I’m fairly confident that it is one of the best open source router firmware solutions in existence.Citation Needed If you’ve ever tinkered with routers before, you know that an excellent way to upgrade your normal consumer grade router is to flash it’s firmware... [Read More]

Nginx is an excellent high performance web server, it tends to be my web server of choice for most things. It can handle reverse proxying to application servers with ease, it can load balance multiple applications, rewrite URLs, act as an HTTPS termination point, and just about anything else... [Read More]

Sinatra is my simple web framework of choice. It gets out of your way and doesn’t make any assumptions for you. This is excellent for smaller web applications and APIs. Which is an excellent way to ensure that your web app is small, simple and serves the basic needs;... [Read More]