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Another small thing to consider: Adding redis to your stack adds a new failure mode. A service I built a while ago was running on Heroku where Redis add-ons aren't cheap, and our R…

I've been following this project for 5 years now, and I've really hoped it would take off. However, part of what made (and to some extent, still makes) the Rails framework so great…

Looks great! You should make these into a calendar

Maybe its not so much getting off Facebook as it is a change in lifestyle. I'm curious if someone conducted a study to see the effects of a group of people who have never used face…

Yeah, I've been guilty of advocating for Rails for nearly every task when I first started out but it seems much more prevalent in the beginners node community. The fact about the S…

Original Author here, I agree that it while it could be argued that express/mongo is more "fundamental" or low level than a stack like rails + mysql, I'd also argue that because it…

Original author here, I agree the depths of abstraction in CS are endless. But in todays day and age, it seems like SQL has matured enough to be learnt without too much background …