Author: J. Austin Hughey

J. Austin Hughey (you can call him Austin) is a software engineer from Texas with an interest and experience with Ruby and related technologies. In his 15 years of experience he’s worked with Ruby at scale while at Engine Yard and he has spoken at conferences and meetups on various topics. His interests include martial arts and community theater.

Signed URLs & Its Usage In Google Cloud Storage

by J. Austin Hughey, posted in Ruby, Ruby on Rails

Imagine that you have a mobile application that needs to store images in Google Cloud Storage. Instead of sending these from your mobile device to your API for storage, it’s more efficient to have your mobile application save these files to cloud storage directly. But how might you do that? The answer: Signed URLs - … Continue reading Signed URLs & Its Usage In Google Cloud Storage

All About Departure.rb & How It Simplifies Migrations

by J. Austin Hughey, posted in Rails 6, Ruby on Rails

Imagine a situation where you need to log every attempt at accessing your application regardless of how many application servers are deployed and when. Text logs aren’t enough and can be difficult to aggregate across multiple disparate filesystems. Not to mention, retrieval of any given text-based record (or series thereof) after several years can be … Continue reading All About Departure.rb & How It Simplifies Migrations

Want To Subscribe to RethinkDB Record Using Go? Here’s How!

by J. Austin Hughey, posted in Go, Rethink DB

RethinkDB is a document storage database with excellent clustering capabilities. However it can also auto notify when records are updated in real-time, and this article is going to explore how to do that using Go. RethinkDB is a document storage database with real-time record pub/sub capabilities. What is RethinkDB? RethinkDB is a document storage database with a lot of … Continue reading Want To Subscribe to RethinkDB Record Using Go? Here’s How!