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Fabio Akita
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Fabio Akita writes AkitaOnRails.com, a personal blog at akitaonrails.com about programming, startups and career. Since 2007, 59 different Hacker News readers have linked it 127 times, most often “Optimizing Linux for Slow Computers”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-30, and you can follow it by feed.
Blog do Fabio Akita do Canal do YouTube 'Akitando' falando sobre tecnologia, carreira e coisas geek.
Most-linked posts?
- Optimizing Linux for Slow Computers6 people · 6 mentions · first linked 2017-01-17
- The New Kid on the Block for Ruby Servers: Raptor5 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2014-10-20
- Windows Subsystem for Linux is good, but not enough yet3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2017-09-20
- Phoenix Framework (Elixir) Experiment, 2M websocket clients single server2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2015-10-29
- Rolling with Rails 2.1 - The First Full Tutorial - Part 22 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2008-05-25
- Rails has won: The Elephant in the Room2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2016-05-24
- From Microsoft to Apple, and Back Again2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2017-11-23
- Chatting with Chris Wanstrath (Github)2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2008-04-21
- Rolling with Rails 2.1 - The First Full Tutorial - Part 12 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2008-05-25
- Personal Thoughts on the Current Functional Programming Bandwagon2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2015-12-10
What Hacker News says?
Yes, and likely faster. http://www.akitaonrails.com/2015/10/27/how-fast-is-elixir-ph...
Comment linking /2015/10/27/how-fast-is-elixir-phoenix
on “Ask HN: What's your favorite way of getting a web app up quickly in 2018?”Submitted Rails has won: The Elephant in the Room as a story · 316 points
HN discussionhttp://www.akitaonrails.com/2016/05/23/rails-has-won-the-ele... HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11757993
Comment linking /2016/05/23/rails-has-won-the-elephant-in-the-room
on “Drop jQuery as a dependency from Rails”Submitted Why are we all moving away from Apple? as a story · 93 points
HN discussionHi @chriscappuccio, Could you share an example of what you went wrong? The Mattermost server has around 59% automated test coverage, our community does over 120 hours of manual testing prior to each monthly release, and we're constantly striving to improve. Here's a recent review of Mattermost's quality levels, from someone who left Mattermost and then returned, concluding Mattermost was the leading solution: http:/…
Comment linking /2016/08/13/choosing-mattermost-over-rocket-chat-and-slack
on “What Slack might learn from its Open Source alternative”Submitted _Why Documentary at Rubyconf 2012, Denver as a story · 48 points
HN discussionI think optimizing while designing is totally appropriate. In fact you can make some of the most powerful optimizations at the design stage, with almost no additional effort required. Should you go down a rabbit hole, spending hours optimizing something because you think it might help? No, of course not. To my reading, that is what the warning is about. But when you're designing a system, especially one that you kno…
Comment linking /2014/10/19/the-new-kid-on-the-block-for-ruby-servers-raptor
on “Harmful Gotos, Premature Optimizations, and Programming Myths”Submitted Windows Subsystem for Linux is good, but not enough yet as a story · 41 points
HN discussionPerl was popular because it had a huge head start. Perl 5 was released the same year as Python 1.0. CPAN launched in 1995, PyPI in 2003. Python began to pick up momentum around 2000. It was able to break out of the "scripting" niche because it had good OO support and encouraged a consistent style that made it easy for several developers to work on a large project. Rails probably marked the tipping point, but it wasn…
Comment linking /2008/01/01/chatting-with-adrian-holovaty
on “Perl 5.26.0 released”Submitted From Microsoft to Apple, and Back Again as a story · 32 points
HN discussionAFAIK, it's the same as any other language w/ Ruby. Http micro service, IPC, or FFI. There were some attempts to do inline crystal, like what Mojo does in Python, but I don't know if any of them became stable long term solutions. There's probably a way to get native C ext speed, you can see an old attempt here: https://www.akitaonrails.com/2016/07/06/trying-to-match-c-ba... But at any rate, it'll be better than ruby.
Comment linking /2016/07/06/trying-to-match-c-based-fast-blank-with-crystal
on “Crystal 1.11.0 Is Released”Submitted Chatting with Blaine Cook (Twitter) as a story · 21 points
HN discussionSimilar to other Erlang implementations like Pheonix I guess http://www.akitaonrails.com/2015/10/29/phoenix-experiment-ho...
Comment linking /2015/10/29/phoenix-experiment-holding-2-million-websocket-clients
on “Ejabberd Massive Scalability: 1 Node – 2+ Million Concurrent Users”Submitted Chatting with Adrian Holovaty as a story · 21 points
HN discussionIt doesn't really matter much to me if you watch the video or not. I did want to take the opportunity, however, to give you a taste of your own medicine after this incident: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=135296 . ;) All that aside, the whole point of the talk was that one can live very well off one's web application even if it's only moderately successful. I think the example he gave was 2,000 small business u…
Comment linking /2008/4/21/chatting-with-chris-wanstrath-err-the-blog-github
on “YC Analysis: "37signals/DHH style" companies?”Submitted Optimizing Linux for Slow Computers as a story · 15 points
HN discussionCoincidentally I wrote about this same subject this week. But I went a step further than that. It's not about the pen. http://www.akitaonrails.com/2017/06/01/conference-talks-inte...
Comment linking /2017/06/01/conference-talks-interviews-and-the-pen
on “An answer to the “Sell Me This Pen” interview challange”Submitted Moving to GitLab Yes it's worth it as a story · 12 points
HN discussionI agree. Rails is currently the way to go. It's much more mature than Django and has more flexibility and more mature gems/plugins. Lynda tutorials are great. I'd also recommend free ones: http://railscasts.com/ http://www.akitaonrails.com/2008/2/1/rolling-with-rails-2-0-... And for-pay ones at http://www.peepcode.com Also, grab "The Rails Way" book by Obie Fernandez (it's THE BEST book on Rails.. when you learn the…
Comment linking /2008/2/1/rolling-with-rails-2-0-pdf-version
on “Ask YC: Learning Web Development, were should I start?”Submitted Rolling with Rails 2.1 - The First Full Tutorial - Part 2 as a story · 12 points
HN discussionThere is a benchmark comparison with Rails. See http://www.akitaonrails.com/2014/10/19/the-new-kid-on-the-bl...
Comment linking /2014/10/19/the-new-kid-on-the-block-for-ruby-servers-raptor
on “Raptor: a radically new Ruby web server”Submitted Chatting with Chris Wanstrath (Github) as a story · 10 points
HN discussionLooking at the single review they link to on the site[1], it looks like the major speedup is due to internal response caching, high concurrency comes from non-thread-bound connection pooling, and there are a few other niceties relating to Nginx integration. [1] http://www.akitaonrails.com/2014/10/19/the-new-kid-on-the-bl...
Comment linking /2014/10/19/the-new-kid-on-the-block-for-ruby-servers-raptor
on “Raptor: a radically new Ruby web server”Submitted RailsConf 2008 - Video Interview with Phusion as a story · 7 points
HN discussionNot yet as far as I can find. I saw Laurent Sansonetti (of RubyMotion fame) tweet about it, but whether he’s had a play or not I don’t know. Fabio Akita’s apparently run some benchmarks against the beta ( http://www.akitaonrails.com/2014/10/19/the-new-kid-on-the-bl... ) but seems almost too excited so maybe take that recommendation with a pinch of salt.
Comment linking /2014/10/19/the-new-kid-on-the-block-for-ruby-servers-raptor
on “Raptor: a radically new Ruby web server”Submitted XHTML and CSS Embarrassment as a story · 7 points
HN discussionaka it’s “turtles all the way down” https://www.akitaonrails.com/2007/12/15/chatting-with-avi-br...
Comment linking /2007/12/15/chatting-with-avi-bryant-part-1
on “What are the enduring innovations of Lisp? (2022)”Submitted Optimizing Linux for Slow Computers as a story · 6 points
HN discussionAnd the link to part 1 on Akita's blog is broken. Here it is... http://www.akitaonrails.com/2008/5/25/rolling-with-rails-2-1... [Update - Never mind. It just errored out on me for some reason. I apologize]
Comment linking /2008/5/25/rolling-with-rails-2-1-the-first-full-tutorial-part-1
on “Rolling with Rails 2.1 - The First Full Tutorial - Part 2”Submitted Personal Thoughts on the Current Functional Programming Bandwagon as a story · 6 points
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