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2024 ended up a pretty solid writing year for me. Here are the top 10 posts by views. Of them, 8 were written in 2024 (tanstack and pgbouncer have had alot of staying power, they're from 2023). I'll link to each after this, in case you'd like to check them out!

jpcamara.com/2024/12/01/s...

jpcamara.comSpeeding up Ruby by rewriting C… in RubyThere is a recent language comparison repo which has been getting shared a lot. In it, CRuby was the third slowest option, only beating out R and Python. The repo author, @BenjDicken, created a fun vi...

jpcamara.com/2024/07/15/r...

jpcamara.comRuby methods are colorless👋🏼 This is part of series on concurrency, parallelism and asynchronous programming in Ruby. It’s a deep dive, so it’s divided into 12 main parts: Your Ruby programs are always multi-threaded: Part 1 ...

jpcamara.com/2023/03/07/m...

jpcamara.comMaking Tanstack Table 1000x faster with a 1 line changeA few months back I was working on a Javascript frontend for a large dataset using Tanstack Table. The relevant constraints were: Up to 50k rows of content Grouped by up to 3 columns Using react and...

jpcamara.com/2023/04/12/p...

jpcamara.comPgBouncer is useful, important, and fraught with perilUpdated 2024-09-17 to reflect updated PgBouncer support for protocol-level prepared statements 🐘 To start, I want to say that I’m appreciative that PgBouncer exists and the work its open source maint...

jpcamara.com/2024/06/04/y...

jpcamara.comYour Ruby programs are always multi-threaded: Part 1👋🏼 This is a series on concurrency, parallelism and asynchronous programming in Ruby. It’s a deep dive, so it’s divided into 12 main parts: Your Ruby programs are always multi-threaded: Part 1 Your R...

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jpcamara.com/2024/12/14/m...

jpcamara.comMy RubyConf talk is now on YouTube!I was honored to present a talk on Ruby concurrency at RubyConf 2024. It represents a high-level distillation of much of my writing and research over the past year. The conference itself was great, an...

jpcamara.com/2024/08/26/t...

jpcamara.comThe Thread API : Concurrent, colorless Ruby👋🏼 This is part of series on concurrency, parallelism and asynchronous programming in Ruby. It’s a deep dive, so it’s divided into 12 main parts: Your Ruby programs are always multi-threaded: Part 1 ...

jpcamara.com/2024/06/23/y...

jpcamara.comYour Ruby programs are always multi-threaded: Part 2👋🏼 This is a series on concurrency, parallelism and asynchronous programming in Ruby. It’s a deep dive, so it’s divided into 12 main parts: Your Ruby programs are always multi-threaded: Part 1 Your R...

jpcamara.com/2024/11/26/l...

jpcamara.comCalculating the largest known prime in RubyLooking to impress your Ruby friends by calculating the largest known prime, 2 ** 136_279_841-1? On Ruby 3.4.0-preview2 and earlier, 2 ** 136_279_841-1 logs a warning and returns Infinity 😔: 2 ** 136_...