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Numbered Parameters in Ruby 2.7
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Programming Languages

A new feature called “numbered parameters” will see the light of day in the Ruby 2.7 release at the end of the year. What caught my attention was not the feature itself but the mixed reception it got from the community.

Running Multiple Instances of a Service
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System Administration

This article will teach you how to run one or more Redis instances on a Linux server using systemd to spawn copies of a service.

Profiling Vim
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Developer Tools

I like Vim because it’s very fast. Unfortunately the other day I found myself opening a diff file that took forever to load. The file had 58187 (this number will be important later on) lines in it but I never thought Vim would choke with something that was less than 2M size.

Yes, Ship It!
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Release Automation

Last week I had the chance to participate in my first Hackweek. I never had such an experience in any other company I’ve ever worked for and between my colleagues’ reports about previous experiences and my own expectations I was very excited to see what was all the fuzz about.

Getting Started with Continuous Delivery
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Continuous Delivery Configuration Management

More and more companies are requiring developers to understand Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery but starting to implement it in your projects can be a bit overwhelming. Start with a simple website and soon enough you will feel more confident to do with more complex projects.