I want to write a post about Pitchfork, explaining where it comes from, why it is like it is, and how I see its future. But before I can get to that, I think I need to explain a few things, namely why in many circles fork is seen as a relic of the past, if not outright the devil’s creation. And yet, it’s ubiquitous in the Ruby ecosystem.| byroot’s blog
Recent Ruby releases added some nice tools to better instrument applications| byroot’s blog
When the topic of Rails performance comes up, it is commonplace to hear that the database is the bottleneck, so Rails applications are IO-bound anyway, hence Ruby performance doesn’t matter that much, and all you need is a healthy dose of concurrency to make your service scale. But how true is this in general?| byroot’s blog
man7.org > Linux > man-pages| man7.org
CPython’s global interpreter lock (“GIL”) prevents multiple threads from executing Python code at the same time. The GIL is an obstacle to using multi-core CPUs from Python efficiently. This PEP proposes adding a build configuration (--disable-gil) to...| Python Enhancement Proposals (PEPs)