Mike Perham

Portland Green. Creative. Weird.

I’m so excited for @xoruby.com Portland in October! www.xoruby.com/event/portla...

I'm going to be speaking at @xoruby.com Atlanta on September 13th. XO Ruby is a brand-new (traveling) single-day Ruby conference. If you're a Rubyist in the southeastern US, you should check it out! (And if not, take a look at other 5 stops this fall.)

IMO Nuclear is a rouse to delay installing renewables. Solar and battery are much cheaper, easier to build and simpler to scale today.

AI in Wyoming may soon use more electricity than state’s human residents Proposed data center would demand 5x Wyoming’s current power use at full deployment.

All of the new AI datacenters in the US are powered by fossil fuel, burning vast amounts of methane.

The world is burning hotter every summer and AI is making it worse.

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Monitoring Sidekiq performance in Honeybadger Monitor Sidekiq background job performance with Honeybadger's automatic dashboards. Track job volume, durations, worker stats, and slowest runs.

HB already captures your Sidekiq performance data, but it can be hard to know where to start when jobs pile up.

We added a Sidekiq dashboard with charts for job volume, worker stats, and slowest jobs—it's a great starting point for investigating issues.

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"We want this to be a welcoming place for people who bring kindness, curiosity, and care."

This is why when @timriley.info asked if @honeybadger.io would be a founding patron of the @hanamirb.org project, I said please take my money.

Board game night at #railsconf was packed!

The #sidekiq game night is on the top floor of the Sheraton. 8pm-late, see you there! #railsconf

Me, being happy

Loving this Photo Booth from @flagrant at #railsconf

I'm not at #RailsConf, but I did just now release a new web framework I've been working on: BrutRB:

https://brutrb.com

Read about it on my blog, below. It's not like Rails at all. I had fun working on it, will keep working on it, and hope you like it!

What should I talk about? 🤔💭

We are so grateful for our founding patrons.

Thank you to @mike.contribsys.com, @baweaver.bsky.social, @honeybadger.io, @fastruby.bsky.social, and @appsignal.com!

We would love for you to join them!

Thanks also to @rubycentral.org for serving as our fiscal host.

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Become a Hanami, Dry and Rom patron Help us build a diverse future for Ruby.

A new era begins for Hanami, Dry and Rom — paid, ongoing maintenance for the very first time. We need your help to make it happen! Become a patron today.

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My fundamental belief is that Ractors will never get significant traction with that restriction in place. There has to be a path forward that is compatible with existing code or no one will use it.

What team is working on Ractors?

Sidekiq Enterprise 8.0.1 can now pause, unpause and manually enqueue periodic jobs. This has been a long-requested feature so I'm happy to finally ship it!

https://github.com/sidekiq/sidekiq/wiki/Ent-Periodic-Jobs#web-ui

I'd be happy to work with ruby-core on Ractor APIs that actually improve their usability, I'd even sponsor their development. We need truly thread-safe data structures that can be shared. Expecting Ruby apps to remove global mutable state is not realistic.

Sidekiq (@sidekiq@ruby.social) 11 Posts, 1 Following, 355 Followers · In your servers, running your jobs. Built with care by @getajobmike.

Here’s a little bit about @sidekiq 8’s new job profiling feature. I hope you find it useful. :sidekiq:

https://www.mikeperham.com/2025/04/08/sidekiq-8.0-profiling/

I don't know what I was expecting but I read the code and it does exactly what it says. A nice bit of tomfoolery.

Sidekiq 8.0 makes some major improvements to its Web UI. Much faster rendering, 10x smaller CSS.

Read we did it:

https://www.mikeperham.com/2025/04/01/sidekiq-8.0-improvements-to-the-web-ui/

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ratomic - Ractor-safe mutable data structures for Ruby https://github.com/mperham/ratomic

Know Rust or C extensions? Help us expand the APIs and improve the native gem builds.

https://github.com/mperham/ratomic/issues

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Great to see @thoughtbot.com join @honeybadger.io and @transistor.fm in leaving X and Meta!

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Simple, efficient background jobs for Ruby Sidekiq is a simple, efficient framework for background jobs in Ruby

Welcome, Sidekiq, as our SOCKS5 sponsor! 🙇‍♂️

Need speed? Scale your app with Ruby's fastest job system, up to 20x faster than the competition! Sidekiq 8.0 is out now. sidekiq.org

Thank you @mike.contribsys.com for your support and the comfy Sidekiq socks we'll give. 🧦

Sidekiq Enterprise 8.0 is now available. May your upgrade go flawlessly! #ruby

Customers aren't left out: Sidekiq Pro 8.0 is now available too.

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Sidekiq's metrics view

Sidekiq 8.0 is now available, with easy Job Profiling and a refreshed Web UI. Read more:

www.mikeperham.com/2025/03/05/i...

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They literally don’t need it at all. 1st party cookies are allowed, it’s the 3rd party sharing that requires consent.

I don’t see bridged replies, you need to use Mastodon. But really please open a discussion on Github. I’m sympathetic here.

“No worries?” “No, worries!”