I’m Michał Łęcicki (aka Maikhel), ruby software engineer from Visuality 👋 I believe self-improvement, responsibility and clean solutions are necessary to get things done: both in software development and real life. Feel free to check some of my posts below. There are also some photos and more information about me.
Multithreading is a hot topic in the Ruby community. There are many good sources of theoretical knowledge (e.g. this blog post written by Janek), so let’s focus more on practical use cases. In this article, I’m showcasing a few different ways of making asynchronous calls within a single process and ensuring their completion.
Posted on 05 January 2024
As Rails developers, we often encounter performance issues in different parts of our applications. But establishing connections to external services is usually the place we overlook. Let me introduce the concept of connection pooling and show you an example of easy, performant connections to RabbitMQ.
Posted on 01 September 2023
In the Rails world, optimistic locking is relatively well known, while its pessimistic alternative is often overlooked. In this blog post, I will present how to effectively use pessimistic locking in Rails applications.
Posted on 23 June 2023
Welcome to my guide on how to boost your productivity with Getting Things Done. I already shared my experiences and tools in other blog posts. This time I have a step-by-step recipe to help you start using GTD. Grab a coffee and let’s go!
Posted on 30 January 2023
Getting Things Done is an awesome productivity framework. But it’s just a framework. It provides instructions and rules, but everyone must adjust them to personal preferences and needs. So did I. Let me share what tools and notebook structure I came up with to implement GTD.
Posted on 22 December 2022