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The Internals of Ruby Thread

Most major programming languages implement threads to run code in parallel. This is also true for Ruby. However, Ruby's threading model differs from languages like C# and Java - it is not fully multithreaded. Specifically, we are referring to MRI Ruby (also known as CRuby) in this blog

HTML Parser

Nokolexbor - a performance-focused HTML parser for Ruby

There aren't many choices of HTML parsers in the ruby ecosystem. The most obvious one would be Nokogiri, which we used heavily at SerpApi. As time passed, we became gradually unsatisfied with Nokogiri's performance. Though it's mainly relying on libxml2 which is an XML

Ruby

How to detect memory leak in Ruby C extension

Memory leak has been one of the most difficult problems to track down in the C/C++ world. It's also true when it comes to Ruby C extensions. We don't expect memory bloat for a long-running Ruby service. Fortunately, the community has developed great tools to

debugging

How to create Ruby C extension and debug in VS Code

When developing Nokolexbor [https://github.com/serpapi/nokolexbor], I found debugging with gdb or lldb was troublesome because I have to do everything with commands. For me, it will be more delightful to debug with an interactive GUI, which makes it convenient to control breakpoints and steps, inspect values and

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Benchmarking Ruby 3.1 (+YJIT) vs Ruby 2.7

We benchmarked Ruby 3.1 (+YJIT) vs Ruby 2.7 in the hope of upgrading our infrastructure.

AI ML

[Failed] Investigating Machine Learning Techniques to Improve Spec Tests - V

Intro This is a part of the series of blog posts related to Artificial Intelligence Implementation. If you are interested in the background of the story or how it goes: This week we'll showcase storing and reusing trained weights, and talk about the crucial mistake I did in

Data Science

Investigating Machine Learning Techniques to Improve Spec Tests — IV

Intro This is a part of the series of blog posts related to Artificial Intelligence Implementation. If you are interested in the background of the story or how it goes: This week we'll showcase testing process and the early results of the model. We will be using SerpApi&

AI ML

Investigating Machine Learning Techniques to Improve Spec Tests — III

Intro This is a part of the series of blog posts related to Artificial Intelligence Implementation. If you are interested in the background of the story or how it goes: This week we'll showcase training procedures for implementing Machine Learning models for general testing purposes. We will be

Data Science

Investigating Machine Learning Techniques to Improve Spec Tests - II

Showcase the database creation process for implementing Machine Learning models for general testing purposes.

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