Parker Selbert

Parker is one half of Soren, a partnership that helps businesses make their production Rails apps better.

Ruby
Parker SelbertApril 14th, 2016
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Counting Distinct Values With HyperLogLog
Counting distinct values is a trivial matter with small datasets, but it gets dramatically harder for streams with millions of…
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Ruby
Parker SelbertMarch 17th, 2016
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Surrogate WebSockets Alongside Rails
ActionCable is coming to Rails 5 and brings with it the promise of using WebSockets directly in Rails. Ruby has…
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Web Dev
Parker SelbertFebruary 18th, 2016
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Kafka, Logs, and the Policy of Truth
Kafka is a distributed, partitioned, replicated commit log service. It provides the functionality of a messaging system, but with a…
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Web Dev
Parker SelbertJanuary 7th, 2016
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7 Tips for Continuously Deploying Single Page Apps
Single page apps deliver fantastically rich user experiences, and they open up an entirely different avenue for continuous deployment. Separating…
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Ruby
Parker SelbertNovember 3rd, 2015
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Alternative Service Communication Using Pub/Sub
The HTTP protocol was designed for synchronous communication between two entities — for instance, a browser requesting a stylesheet or…
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Ruby
Parker SelbertOctober 9th, 2015
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Folding Postgres Window Functions into Rails
You’ve heard of window functions in PostgreSQL, but you aren’t quite sure what they are or how to use them.…
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