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2026-5-15 6:35am Software Design: Tidy First? Kent Beck 1,000 words

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Scaling Rails at Aura Frames: Splitting to 8 Primary DBs and Reaching #1 in the App Store

📌 Overview Ruby on Rails has helped make it possible to scale out the database layer, meeting the demands of millions of Aura Frames customers enjoying their digital photo frames. In late 2025, the team added additional primary databases to expand capacity for peak write and read load ahead of Christmas Day, the busiest day of the year for the company. Rails manages queries and schema changes for each primary database within the same codebase, and now with the additional capacity of many...

2026-6-16 6:15am Software Engineer, Author, High Performance PostgreSQL for Rails Andrew Atkinson 4,000 words

Rated 2026-6-19 10:50pm - sethherr

How Alberta eradicated rats

Rats have conquered nearly every place on earth where humans live. Only Alberta soldiers on. #History

2026-6-15 5:19am Works in Progress wip-admin 3,000 words

Rated 2026-6-18 5:07pm - sethherr

The AirPods Effect - The Escape with Markham Heid

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Rated 2026-6-18 5:06pm - sethherr

The Reckoning of Morris Dees and the Southern Poverty Law Center

Bob Moser writes on the Southern Poverty Law Center firing its co-founder and longtime mastermind Morris Dees, after years of allegations of sexual harassment and racial discrimination against him. #Marketing #Sexual Harassment

2019-3-21 8:05am The New Yorker Bob Moser 2,000 words

Rated 2026-6-18 5:02pm - sethherr