Stemming from the caching issues, I described previously, I decided it was a good opportunity to update our caching implementation. What we had was a hybrid of MemCacheStore for use with fragments and a wrapper around Evan Weaver’s memcached gem for a few other processes. This was a bit quirky, not to mention fragile. Multiple [...]

For the past week or so, I’ve been racking my brain trying to resolve an issue with memcached. Basically, several times a day our data was disappearing. We had plenty of memory to use so that definitely wasn’t a factor. Yet daily, we experienced data loss. This led me on a meandering path of troubleshooting, [...]

I’ve been at Railconf 2010 all week and it’s been awesome. I’m heading home with a laundry list a mile long of different technologies to experiment with and learn about. I wanted a small side project to hack on while in between sessions and came up with jsonwhois. The idea behind it is really simple, [...]