Adam Pope

Founder at Storm Consultancy and CiteAb. Ruby on Rails and WordPress developer based in Bath, UK.

[Nate Berkopec @nateberkopec]

I'll give this to Twitter: when they decided to migrate off of Rails, at least they fixed the failwhales.

[Adam Pope @adam_pope]

@jorgemanru This looks great Jorge! Do you see a future where there is an option to pick which buttons exist on the toolbar? We often want to offer users a really simple rich text experience and turn off lots of the options.

[Adam Pope @adam_pope]

I didn’t fully understand the semantics of `<` in a #ruby gemspec with respect to pre-release gems until I tried to upgrade a beta version of rails to the final release - with unexpected results!

https://t.co/ZAdJOMEjCk

[Fermat's Library @fermatslibrary]

Michael Collins, the astronaut who took this photo in 1969, is the only human, alive or dead, not captured in the frame of this picture.

[DHH @dhh]

Think we need to add a third step to the Rails tagline: "from HELLO WORLD to IPO [to a million+ req/sec doing $5B/day". Mind boggling scale for Ruby on Rails. Shopify continues to raise the high-water mark 🤘

[Adam Pope @adam_pope]

@Shpigford Loved watching you build this thing! If you added Rollbar support along with Sentry then I would definitely love to try this!

[Storm Consultancy @stormUK]

It gives us an immense amount of pride to share with you, the recertification of our B-Corp status came with an increased score of nearly 14 points!

[Gabor Cselle @gabor]

Here's what Gemini 1.5 Pro had to say about the SORA video:

"The video is of a snowy street in Japan, with cherry blossoms in bloom. There are a few inconsistencies that suggest the video may be AI-generated.

First, the snow is falling very heavily, but the cherry blossoms are still in bloom. Cherry blossoms typically bloom in the spring, when the weather is warm and there is no snow.

Second, the snow is falling in a very uniform way, which is not how snow typically falls in real life.

Third, the people in the video are not wearing any winter clothing, even though it is snowing heavily.

Overall, the video is visually appealing, but the inconsistencies suggest that it is not a real-life scene."

[Storm Consultancy @stormUK]

We love #RubyonRails and it’s our tech stack of choice when developing new applications for our clients and partners. We find it particularly effective for building a minimum viable product (MVP). It could be a great choice for your next project 👇
https://t.co/f6bjgBUo61

[Storm Consultancy @stormUK]

Looking for a fresh start in 2024? We're looking for a mid/senior full stack developer to join our team to work on some awesome upcoming projects.

Found out more about the role, us and how to apply here 👇
https://t.co/lsI9Ju3Wsa

#rubyonrailsdeveloper #rubydeveloper #hiring

[Dr Milan Milanović @milan_milanovic]

𝗦𝗵𝗼𝗽𝗶𝗳𝘆 𝘀𝗲𝗿𝘃𝗲𝗱 𝗺𝗼𝗿𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝗻 𝟭 𝗠𝗶𝗹𝗹𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗿𝗲𝗾𝘂𝗲𝘀𝘁𝘀 𝗽𝗲𝗿 𝘀𝗲𝗰𝗼𝗻𝗱 𝗱𝘂𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗕𝗹𝗮𝗰𝗸 𝗙𝗿𝗶𝗱𝗮𝘆

You probably think that such large requests can be handled only by some fancy microservices. The truth is a bit different.

Shopify uses a 𝗺𝗼𝗱𝘂𝗹𝗮𝗿 𝗺𝗼𝗻𝗼𝗹𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝗮𝗽𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗮𝗰𝗵, where they keep all their code in one modular codebase. Monolithic architecture is the easiest one to understand and implement. Since monolithic design is simple to build and enables teams to move swiftly in the beginning, it can carry an application far to get their product in front of customers earlier.

There are many benefits to centralizing your application deployment and codebase maintenance. All functionality will be accessible in one folder; you only need to manage one repository. Additionally, it implies that one test and deployment pipeline needs to be maintained, which might save much work. The ability to call into different components rather than relying on web service APIs is among the most alluring 𝗮𝗱𝘃𝗮𝗻𝘁𝗮𝗴𝗲𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝗺𝗼𝗻𝗼𝗹𝗶𝘁𝗵𝗶𝗰 𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗵𝗶𝘁𝗲𝗰𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲 over several distinct services.

Shopify implemented one version of the modular monolith with 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗽𝗼𝗻𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗶𝘇𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗶𝗻 𝗥𝘂𝗯𝘆 𝗼𝗻 𝗥𝗮𝗶𝗹𝘀. They organize a code base around real-world concepts (like orders, shipping, inventory, and billing), which makes it easier to label code and people who understand it. Each component is a mini Rails app (a module) that isolates business domains from one another. Each component claims sole ownership of the data associated with and defines a straightforward, dedicated interface with domain boundaries communicated through a public API.

More stats for Black Friday:

🔹 145 billion requests (~60 million per minute)
🔹 99.999+% uptime
🔹 5 TB/min of data served from across the infrastructure
🔹 MySQL 5.7 and 8 fleets handled over 19 million requests per second (QPS)
🔹 22 GB/sec of logs and 51.4 GB/sec of metrics data
🔹 Ingested 9 million spans a second of tracing data
🔹 Their Apache Kafka served 29 million messages per second at peak
🔹 Everything is run on Google Cloud

#softwareengineering #technology #programming #softwarearchitecture #techworldwithmilan

[Storm Consultancy @stormUK]

We're looking for a Mid/Senior Full Stack Rails Developer to join our team.
We're a B-corp, Queen's Award winning agency based in Bath. We work with a range of incredible companies, brining their ideas to life.

Check out the role here 👇
https://t.co/lsI9Ju3Wsa

[Bath & North East Somerset Council @bathnes]

Storm Consultancy has won Green Business Leader in this year's Community Awards 🏆
Storm promotes biodiversity and benefits people through its tree planting project, Co-Forest.
https://t.co/BAFPJLEqkb

[Adam Pope @adam_pope]

@joemasilotti Love that this is coming, we can’t go iOS only so really need your level of quality content for Android!

[Adam Pope @adam_pope]

@nicalpi We’re using Mosyle MDM to help with Cyber Essentials compliance. We’re being fairly light touch but it’s fairly easy to setup and use. New devices enroll automatically when bought through our apple business account.

[Adam Pope @adam_pope]

@nicalpi @stormUK Hahah, I guess it helps to have that personality to start successful things!

[Adam Pope @adam_pope]

@nicalpi @stormUK I was blue, I think we had one green dev - and I guess that might be you as well. Dave was red, obviously

[Luke Wroblewski @LukeW]

16 years.

[Storm Consultancy @stormUK]

📣 WE'RE HIRING! 📣

Do you know a talented Junior/ Mid Designer? We're looking for our next team member to join us in Bath!

https://t.co/BzslVrXXaO