Let’s not monkey-patch instrumentation
Modern telemetry libraries allow easily configuring auto instrumentation, to automatically gather observability data about frameworks and libraries.
There are two main approaches to architecting those auto-instrumentation libraries. As middlewares/wrappers, or as monkey-patches. I believe middlewares are much better, here’s why.
You most likely don’t need metrics
Ever since we need to operate hardware and software in production, we have needed to know how those behave. For example, when I brew craft beer, I use an iSpindle to monitor the temperature and the gravity of my wort.
Functional Options in Ruby
In this article, I would like to suggest the use of a very common pattern in Go, Functional Options, but adapted to the Ruby language.
Stop being “agile”
Every thursday morning, we meet over tea/coffee with other people living in Toulouse. We call that event “Code & Coffee”.
Design your API with objects, not actions
Designing an API is hard. You think of endpoints as you imagine them; implement them and sometimes sooner or later, you realise things aren’t built the way they should have been.