Articles by Robert Pankowecki

3 ways to make your ruby object thread-safe
Robert Pankowecki
Doing more on reads vs writes
Robert Pankowecki
Correlation id and causation id in evented systems
Robert Pankowecki
Using singleton objects as default arguments in Ruby
Robert Pankowecki
Ruby Event Store - use without Rails
Robert Pankowecki
Rails Event Store - better APIs coming
Robert Pankowecki
How to use Algolia without coupling to ActiveRecord::Base
Robert Pankowecki
Your search index is a read model (and API 😉) in the Searching bounded context
Robert Pankowecki
How Algolia built their frontend search widgets with React.js by following redux principles
Robert Pankowecki
The anatomy of search pages
Robert Pankowecki
Building custom search is hard and boring
Robert Pankowecki
Testing React.js components with Jest in Rails+Webpacker+Webpack environment
Robert Pankowecki
Using ruby parser and AST tree to find deprecated syntax
Robert Pankowecki
On ActiveRecord callbacks, setters and derived data
Robert Pankowecki
Why Event Sourcing basically requires CQRS and Read Models
Robert Pankowecki
Quarantine your non-deterministic tests with a time limit
Robert Pankowecki
Safely migrating hasandbelongstomany associations to Rails 4
Robert Pankowecki
Interview with Scott Bellware (Eventide co-creator) about micro-services in Ruby, event sourcing, autonomous services, SOA, dumb pipes, EventStore and mis-representation of terms in IT
Robert Pankowecki
Application Services — 10 common doubts answered
Robert Pankowecki
Relative Testing vs Absolute Testing
Robert Pankowecki
Two ways for testing preloading/eager-loading of ActiveRecord associations in Rails
Robert Pankowecki
Using state_machine with event sourced entities
Robert Pankowecki
Could we drop Symbols from Ruby?
Robert Pankowecki
Which ruby version am I using — how to check?
Robert Pankowecki
How to overwrite tojson (asjson) in Active Record models in Rails
Robert Pankowecki
All the ways to generate routing paths in Rails
Robert Pankowecki
Custom application configuration variables in Rails 4 and 5
Robert Pankowecki
How mutation testing causes deeper thinking about your code + constructor for an included module in Ruby
Robert Pankowecki
How to find records where column is not null or empty in Rails 4 or 5
Robert Pankowecki
DATABASE_URL examples for Rails DB connection strings
Robert Pankowecki
Interview with Sergii Makagon about hanami-events, domain-driven design, remote work, blogging and more
Robert Pankowecki
inject vs eachwithobject
Robert Pankowecki
The === (case equality) operator in Ruby
Robert Pankowecki
How to connect to and use ActiveRecord outside of Rails?
Robert Pankowecki
What I learned from reading spreadsheet_architect code
Robert Pankowecki
That one time I used recursion to solve a problem
Robert Pankowecki
My fruitless, previous attempts at not losing history of changes in Rails apps
Robert Pankowecki
My first 10 minutes with Eventide
Robert Pankowecki
How to add a default value to an existing column in a Rails migration
Robert Pankowecki
When DDD clicked for me
Robert Pankowecki
How to quickly add graphs and charts to Rails app
Robert Pankowecki
nil?, empty?, blank? in Ruby on Rails - what's the difference actually?
Robert Pankowecki
Monitoring Sidekiq queues with middlewares
Robert Pankowecki
How to keep yourself motivated for blogging?
Robert Pankowecki
Handle sidekiq processing when one job saturates your workers and the rest queue up
Robert Pankowecki
How to safely store API keys in Rails apps
Robert Pankowecki
The easiest posts to write for a programming blog
Robert Pankowecki
Using influxdb with ruby
Robert Pankowecki
Tracking dead code in Rails apps with metrics
Robert Pankowecki
What I learnt today from reading gems' code
Robert Pankowecki
Acceptance testing using actors/personas
Robert Pankowecki
Handling SVG images with Refile and Imgix
Robert Pankowecki
Conditionality is filtering. Don't filter control flow, filter data.
Robert Pankowecki
Reliable notifications between two apps or microservices
Robert Pankowecki
Why classes eventually reach 50 columns and hundreds of methods
Robert Pankowecki
Prototypes in Ruby and the strange story of dup
Robert Pankowecki
Ruby code I no longer write
Robert Pankowecki
yield default object
Robert Pankowecki
Fluent Interfaces in Ruby ecosystem
Robert Pankowecki
On upcoming immutable string literals in Ruby
Robert Pankowecki
Why would you even want to listen about DDD?
Robert Pankowecki
Safer Rails database migrations with Soundcloud's Large Hadron Migrator
Robert Pankowecki
Patterns for dealing with uncertainty
Robert Pankowecki
One request can be multiple commands
Robert Pankowecki
Hourly Billing is Nuts
Robert Pankowecki
The freelancer in you that wants to be FREE
Robert Pankowecki
To blog or to write code?
Robert Pankowecki
Minimal decoupled subsystems in your rails app
Robert Pankowecki
respond_to |format| is useful even without multiple formats
Robert Pankowecki
Implementing & Testing SOAP API clients in Ruby
Robert Pankowecki
Always present association
Robert Pankowecki
Domain Events Schema Definitions
Robert Pankowecki
Cover all test cases with #permutation
Robert Pankowecki
Domain Events over Active Record Callbacks
Robert Pankowecki
How I hunted the most odd ruby bug
Robert Pankowecki
Custom type-casting with ActiveRecord, Virtus and dry-types
Robert Pankowecki
Using anonymous modules and prepend to work with generated code
Robert Pankowecki
Private classes in Ruby
Robert Pankowecki
Drop this before validation and just use a setter method
Robert Pankowecki
In-Memory Fake Adapters
Robert Pankowecki
Monitoring services and adapters in your Rails app with Honeybadger, NewRelic and #prepend
Robert Pankowecki
Rolling back complex apps
Robert Pankowecki
Run it in a background job, after a commit, from a service object
Robert Pankowecki
Advantages of working on a legacy application
Robert Pankowecki
Sanitizing html input: youtube iframes, css inline styles and customization
Robert Pankowecki
Testing race conditions in your Rails app
Robert Pankowecki
Null Object pattern in practice
Robert Pankowecki
On my radar: RethinkDB + React.js + Rails
Robert Pankowecki
How to get anything done? - 4 tips
Robert Pankowecki
My favorite ActiveSupport features
Robert Pankowecki
Adding videos embedded in a page to a sitemap
Robert Pankowecki
Upgrade capybara-webkit to 1.4 and save your time
Robert Pankowecki
Ruby Exceptions Equality
Robert Pankowecki
It's easy to miss a higher level concept in an app
Robert Pankowecki
The categories of validations
Robert Pankowecki
rails-refactoring.com podcast #1
Robert Pankowecki
Don't forget about eager_load when extending autoload paths
Robert Pankowecki
You can move React.js root component around
Robert Pankowecki
Instantiating Service Objects
Robert Pankowecki
React.js and Dynamic Children - Why the Keys are Important
Robert Pankowecki
Behind the scenes
Robert Pankowecki
React.js and Google Charts
Robert Pankowecki
Adapters 101
Robert Pankowecki
Burnout - do you need to change your job?
Robert Pankowecki
Truncating UTF8 Input For Apple Push Notifications (APNS) in Ruby
Robert Pankowecki
Using ruby Range with custom classes
Robert Pankowecki
4 ways to early return from a rails controller
Robert Pankowecki
RubyMine basic navigation features (that make you move around code fast)
Robert Pankowecki
Service objects as a way of testing Rails apps (without factory_girl)
Robert Pankowecki
Effective async communication
Robert Pankowecki
Would you love to work remotely (and asynchronously)?
Robert Pankowecki
Mastering Rails Validations: Objectify
Robert Pankowecki
Mastering Rails Validations: Contexts
Robert Pankowecki
The biggest obstacle to start with Continuous Deployment - database migrations
Robert Pankowecki
Zero uptime deploy
Robert Pankowecki
Don't call controller from background job, please. Do it differently!
Robert Pankowecki
2 ways to deal with big and complicated features
Robert Pankowecki
Pretty, short urls for every route in your Rails app
Robert Pankowecki
Stop including Enumerable, return Enumerator instead
Robert Pankowecki
3 ways to do eager loading (preloading) in Rails 3, 4, 5 and 6
Robert Pankowecki
Chronos vs Kairos: Find out how you think about time when working on a project
Robert Pankowecki
Developers oriented project management: What our new book is all about?
Robert Pankowecki
Developers oriented project management: Take the first task
Robert Pankowecki
Developers oriented project management: Leave tasks unassigned
Robert Pankowecki
Developers oriented project management: Story of size 1
Robert Pankowecki
Developers oriented project management
Robert Pankowecki
Single Table Inheritance - Problems and solutions
Robert Pankowecki
Are we abusing at_exit?
Robert Pankowecki
Is it cute or ugly?
Robert Pankowecki
Web is no longer request-reply
Robert Pankowecki
Rails API - my simple approach
Robert Pankowecki
Blogging for developers
Robert Pankowecki
Not Rails
Robert Pankowecki
One app, one user, one ruby
Robert Pankowecki
Sending async data from Rails into the world (II)
Robert Pankowecki
Sending async data from Rails into the world
Robert Pankowecki
Filepicker and Aviary - Image uploading on steroids
Robert Pankowecki