snmaynard

6 karma · joined April 29, 2012

I'm Simon Maynard, a Brit living in San Francisco. Co-founder of Bugsnag (https://bugsnag.com) with James Smith. Previously worked at Heyzap across their entire software stack.

Have a few sideprojects, including Gitscore (http://gitscore.com), and some others that you can see on (https://github.com/snmaynard). You can also follow me on twitter (http://twitter.com/snmaynard).

My personal site is at http://snmaynard.com

snmaynardon Using pry in production

You can use https://github.com/ConradIrwin/pry-rescue#rspec pry-rescues rspec integration to automatically fall into pry when a test fails

snmaynardon Cassandra vs MongoDB For Time Series Data

> Implications: if you run a query in production that doesn't hit an index, all traffic stops

Even if Mongo did have a global write lock, which it doesn't as has already been covered, it yields on page faults which means that other queries are minimally impacted. See: http://docs.mongodb.org/manual/faq/concurrency/#does-a-read-...