Circuit Breaker

Today we encounter the Circuit Breaker pattern for dealing with recurring errors.

Safe Proxy Part 3

Concluding this live-coded miniseries, this week we will use a callback to add error reporting capabilities.

Safe Proxy Part 2

Today we'll build on the foundation laide down in the last episode, and convert some exceptions into benign return values.

Safe Proxy Part 1

Today we begin a live-coding miniseries about wrapping making objects "safe" so they don't raise exceptions.

Virtual Proxy

When loading domain objects from an external service, it can be expensive to load up associated objects with them. Today's episode takes a look at a p…

Aliasing

Today we look at a perncious problem that sometimes plagues code which uses an Object-Relational Mapper (ORM). Documentation of the ActiveRecord inver…