Writings on various topics (mostly technical) from Oliver Hookins and Angela Collins. We currently reside in Sydney after almost a decade in Berlin, have three kids, and have far too little time to really justify having a blog.
Well, despite my best intentions, here I am again writing Ruby. I decided to automate a small part of some data analysis I've had to do a few times, starting with the database queries themselves. Unfortunately the data is spread over several hosts and databases and the first implementation simply queried them serially. The next iteration used the mysql2 gem's asynchronous query functionality but…