…bliss, you have watched Ryan Bates' Railscast on Complex Forms . It's superlative.
But there's one thing I didn't like... the heavy handed approach of using link_to_function. Especially when including a fair amount of escaped html into an onclick script. I'm not saying it's wrong, just that I believe html should stay where it belongs... in the DOM. Heck, they even created a gem nested_form .
I think we can make it simpler, painless, …
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…working schedule. In this great talk on "Resilient Response in Complex Systems" , which sparked this outburst you're currently reading (thank you, John Allspaw, you're inspiring!), John talks about Game Days at Etsy.
On Game Day, some component of the production system, I repeat, production system, is intentionally caused to fail. The purpose is to get people into the habit of dealing with failure, to get them out of the comfort zone of relying on previous …
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Looking good Vanity 1.8.0 is out : support for Rails 3.2 and many many bug fixes All thanks to @ dougcole who pulled it together.
Failsafe Etsy shares their experience with Resilient Response In Complex Systems .
Must watch Last week I shared a link to this presentation , here's the video for the brilliant The Mythical Team Month .
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As a tasty pairing with Facebook And Site Failures Caused By Complex, Weakly Interacting, Layered Systems , is another excellent tale of caching gone wrong by Peter Zaitsev, in an exciting twin billing: Cache Miss Storm and More on dangers of the caches . This is fascinating case where the cause turned out to be software upgrade that ran long because it had to be rolled back. During the long recovery time many of the cache entries timed out. When the database …