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Aug 24, 2012
The combined JRubyConf EU and Eurucamp conference is over and we’re home again in rainy Sweden. We had a blast, the location at lake Müggelsee was awesome, the weather amazing, and the conference was great. Read on to find the slides from our presentations.
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May 17, 2012
JavaScript and alike are very proud about their first class citizen methods/functions - but what are they? Does Ruby have them? If so, in what form? These are a few of the questions I will try to answer in this post.
If you ever traverse through some Rails projects you will most likely come across the use of Module#alias_method_chain. It basically places a function as a proxy in between the original call and the actual method call. It makes it easy to define some Aspect oriented programming which makes it easy to add logging and performance measuring to a method call.
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Mar 9, 2012
Developing an analytics platform means dealing with enormous quantities of rapidly evolving data. In order to manage it we at Burt use a database called MongoDB. On paper MongoDB seems to be the ultimate solution: its fast, easy to cluster and shard, doesn’t use schemas and supports indexes and some atomic operations, but… Oh ‘BUT’… three simple letters. Three simple letters that have shattered empires.
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Mar 5, 2012
Yes I know — Java, ick. But sometimes it’s worth it. Even though JRuby is blazingly fast, sometimes as fast as Java, there are situations where it just makes more sense to roll up your sleeves and write some proper curly brackets.
Until very recently I wasn’t aware that JRuby had any form of extension API, I just thought that because the Java integration is as good as it is out of the box there wasn’t any need for something like the MRI C API. Then I came across Charles Nutter’s Atomic gem, which is partly written in Java, and had some curious properties that made me dig a little deeper.
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May 11, 2010
In our industry having a 99.99% uptime is the difference between getting payed by your customer and paying your customer.As a skilled systems administrator you’ll join one of the most competent web application teams in Europe to provide technical support and administration to our ever-growing number of machines.You have experience in running high-traffic web sites. You know how to best build up a performant and secure web application stack all the way from routers to servers to load balancers.You listen well, produce quickly and you’re proactive with problems. You really know how to get things done, but more importantly you know when to say ‘No.’.Your beard is trustworthy. -
Oct 22, 2009
Yes – We’re hiring! Burt is an aggressively expanding early stage IT startup based in Sweden. We’re trying to disrupt the AdTech industry by creating great tools for the people who have the most impact – those who create the ads. It’s not easy, but it’s fun! Now we need your help. Are you up for it?(extended background)
We’re looking for a talented Ruby on Rails developer with a passion for creating great web applications.
