Alexander Williams

Originally a programmer and sysadmin, my experience ranges from large infrastructure management with thousands of servers, switches, and routers, to designing electronics, and writing the firmware and backend software to glue it all together.

Current focus

After nearly 25 years in the IT industry, half spent running my own business, I'm hanging up my entrepreneur hat and shifting my focus.

Latest blog post

SQLite database is locked in Rails 8

I was pleased to discover Rails 8 would be using SQLite and Solid Queue to replace Redis and a job queue such as Resque. This caught my attention because in 2017, I wrote a blog post on my company blog about using SQLite with a Queue. However my solution was radically different from the one implemented in Rails 8, so that's what I'll discuss below.

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