Devon C. Estes

Local Metrics Aggregation With Counters

Recently I needed to get a better picture of how my application's database connection pool was doing, but there was a bit of a hitch. DBConnection has a highly optimized queuing algorithm, but the downside of that optimization is that you can't get an accurate picture of the number of idle and busy connections in the pool at any given time like you can with Poolboy. »

From Elixir to Erlang

It's been a while since I've written here, partly because I've been taking care of my kids mostly solo for a while while my wife is out of town, but also because I've been working with a new client since the middle of April. »