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Running Ruby 3.2's YJIT in Production at Discourse

At Discourse, we have been eager to adopt YJIT ever since Shopify’s Ruby & Rails Infrastructure team declared it production-ready. After witnessing promising local benchmarks, we began running our production Rails applications with Ruby 3.2’s YJIT enabled on selected clusters in early May 2023. We then spent

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What Is Asynchronous Communication?

If you have ever said or heard someone say “Can you just send it to me through….” In that case, you have experienced the world of asynchronous communications. Asynchronous communication is any type of communication where one supplies or requests information, and the sender has no expectation of receiving an

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Publish Your Community on the Windows Store

Did you know that you can make your existing (or brand new) Discourse site into a Microsoft Windows Store app? If you have a user base that mainly uses Windows and will benefit from the deeper OS integration, like being pinned to the taskbar or even autostarting on boot, or

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Discourse on a Raspberry Pi

A long standing feature request from our community is finally here! As of today, you are able to host a complete Discourse instance in a $35 Raspberry Pi. You can go ahead and follow our official install guide [https://github.com/discourse/discourse/tree/main/docs/INSTALL-cloud.md], and it

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Who's at Fault: Tracking Down Segfaults in Production

Within complex applications and hosting environments, segfaults can manifest themselves in a myriad of weird and wonderful symptoms. For Discourse the application, this may be a notification email failing to send, or an uploaded image failing to be optimized, or many other not-very-noticeable problems. In some cases, subtle bugs causing

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Faster (and smaller) uploads in Discourse with Rust, WebAssembly and MozJPEG

As of a few weeks ago, image uploads in Discourse are faster AND smaller thanks to a technique that compresses and optimizes the images clientside before they are uploaded. This blog post will describe how this feature works and how we implemented it in Discourse. Introduction While Discourse, and forums