Building stable and robust software is one of the primary goals of any software development project. While it is crucial to keep your code error-free for that, the real strength of your application comes from its foundation—the architecture of your code. In this guide, we will take a look at these design principles in detail.

With the popularity that Rails has always been riding on in the start-up world, it makes all the more sense to look for tools that help you keep your Ruby on Rails application in shape. In this guide, we will look at some of the top APM tools for Rails applications and compare them along some standard benchmarks to help you get an insight into which tool fits your use case the best.

If you’ve used GraphQL for your production application, you may have encountered a scenario where you needed your custom queries to return custom field names. Or, maybe you received two query results in the same server response, causing the field names to clash.

Premature optimization refers to the process of making a piece of code more efficient when it is too soon to guarantee an optimization. To make it more clear, when prematurely optimizing, you usually spend a lot of time and resources working on parts of your code that will have a negligible impact on the outcome rather than on those things that will heavily affect the final results. Such measures almost always backfire since you miss out on perfecting the metrics that truly affect your business.