When you’re working on a backend application, you want your response time to be as low as possible, which is complicated when the server has to interact with third party services to send emails, process files and so on. Vapor provides a library that allows you to move this work out of the request’s critical path by dispatching jobs into queues and processing them in the background. Let’s see how to integrate it into a simple project and what are our options for testing.
Romain Pouclet
Adding A Form Inside Another Form In HTML
I recently shipped a new feature on Comics Outmash called “polls”. Each month or so, the admin can open a new “poll period” where people can suggest a title they’d like to read next. Once there has been enough suggestions, the admin flips a switch and the users can vote on the titles they’re interested in reading. Unsurprinsingly, the title with the most votes wins. As part of this feature, I went through a tiny rabbit hole of at least 4 internet searches and discovered that it’s not possible to add an HTML form inside another. Or, is it?
I’m looking for a job as a software engineer
A few months ago, I announced that I’d decided to leave my position as a software engineer at Apple. After 7 years working on various projects, like Xcode Cloud and that cool hang detection indicator for iOS 16, I felt it was time for me to move on, not without giving myself a few months to rest and hang out with visiting family first. Now, I’m ready to start working again, so I’ve started looking for a position as a senior/staff backend software engineer.
Using Kotlin to build Comics Outmash
In 2022, a colleague of mine asked if I’d be able to help write a Swift on server demo for a WWDC session. At the time, I remember answering to their Slack message with something like “if you cut me I will bleed Swift on server” which, at the time, was probably true. Knowing this, and if you know me at all, you might have been slightly surprised when I mentioned that I decided to use Kotlin for the Comics Outmash project.
Colorful updates
I have used the same theme for this blog for the past few years and it was due for a refresh. While I have gotten pretty good at fighting urges to move to a different platforms, I spent Saturday in cloudy Squamish adding a dash of colour here and there, as well as some new pages.