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Improve Code in Your Ruby Application with RubyCritic

RubyCritic provides visual reports highlighting code smells, code structure, ease of testing, and test coverage in your Ruby application. It's in active development, with new code analysis tools often being introduced as new features. It's well worth keeping track of RubyCritic's releases. This article will touch on some of RubyCritic's benefits, its dependencies, and how to read its code reports. Let's get going!

The 2022 Guide to API Adoption

You must constantly innovate and expand your offerings to stay ahead of the curve. One way to do this is by adopting APIs. API adoption can help you improve customer experience, increase efficiency, and drive innovation. This guide will discuss APIs, including how they work, what benefits API adoption offers, and how to get started.

Parser Combinators in Elixir: Taming Semi-Structured Text

The need to manipulate strings comes up quite often, whether it's to validate user-provided values or transform text into structured data that can be used programmatically. Most often, we'll reach for regular expressions to accomplish this task, but sometimes there's a better solution to the problem: parser combinators. In this two-part article, we'll explore how they work. Before moving on, let's define what 'parsing' is: Source: Wikipedia.

Visualize Azure serverless workflow progress in realtime with pubsub

A suitable way to update a front-end from back-end processes is to use pubsub over WebSockets. In this video I'll show how to use Ably, a cloud based pubsub service, to visualize the progress of a serverless workflow implemented with Azure Functions and Durable Functions. About Ably Ably is an enterprise-grade pub/sub messaging platform. We make it easy to efficiently design, quickly ship, and seamlessly scale critical realtime functionality delivered directly to end-users. Every day, we deliver billions of realtime messages to millions of users for thousands of companies.

What's Better: WebWork Time Tracker or Toggl Track?

The rise of remote work has brought forward relatively new software products called time trackers. As more and more companies were going remote, they needed a way to monitor their employees’ work to ensure proper workflow. That’s when they started to use time trackers. Despite the general resistance towards time trackers, time and proper use proved them important. Both companies and employees realized how beneficial time trackers can be both for the company and for personal use.