Tuomas Kareinen's blog

Using locks implemented as rows in an SQL database enables running scheduled background jobs in an application, providing a best-effort guarantee that only one application instance at a time runs a particular job.

Suppressing duplicate request processing prevents some forms of data corruption, such as data duplication and lost data.

Imagine you have a subdirectory of generated files and you want to store them into Git as a standalone (orphan) branch.

Recently, I’ve been paying attention to the time it takes my shell’s init script to complete.

When you’re concentrating on the essentials of your current programming task, you’ll want to avoid sidetracks as much as possible.

Remote work is sometimes a necessity.

How do you ship the stylesheets and JavaScript sources of your Jekyll-built site?

Me and my colleague Eero Anttila are working in a project where we are using Eero’s Continuous Calendar plugin for jQuery in the frontend.

When I go to explore unfamiliar code, I dig up its tests first.