Gustavo Caso

At Datadog, I work on the Agent, a complex and substantial Go codebase. The Agent is designed to run on customer infrastructure, aggregating customer data and sending it to Datadog for real-time analysis.

Rspec is an excellent testing framework for Ruby. It allows you to use a DSL to test your ruby code. Generally, on a test, we will need some configuration that might have to run before or after the test.

I was reading a fantastic article from my colleague Kir, and I could help myself to feel nerd snipped by: For those curious to try Ractor, I’d suggest to try implementing other things that benefit from parallel execution, for instance a background job processor.

With the current global situation and the need to stay home, I finished writing this post I started during the last Christmas holidays. I wanted to learn more about the WebSockets protocol during Christmas.

Here at Shopify, I work as a Production Engineer on the Jobs team. Our mission is to maintain and improve the background job infrastructure for Shopify Core, one of the world’s most significant Ruby on Rails applications.