Chelsea need to avoid long-throw blues, plus: a vacant spot for Liverpool and West Ham’s best hope for survivalRace for the golden boot: Premier League top scorersCan the 198th derby be any spicier... Read more Chelsea need to avoid long-throw blues, plus: a vacant spot for Liverpool and West Ham’s best hope for survivalRace for the golden boot: Premier League top scorersCan the 198th derby be any spicier for Manchester United and their latest interim manager, Michael Carrick? This is his second caretaker tenure though the three games of November-December 2021 (beating Villarreal and Arsenal, drawing with Chelsea) hardly compares to sending out an XI to try to beat Manchester City in Saturday’s early kick-off. Pep Guardiola’s high-performing unit remain in contention on all fronts. Carrick takes charge of a United suffering the aftershocks of a latest manager sacking, hoping to salvage the season via European qualification. The lad from Wallsend has 17 games to do so – his new team are in seventh place on 32 points, so victory over City would be a fine start. But you wonder if the match might end with Carrick and United humbled or, even worse, humiliated. Jamie JacksonManchester United v Manchester City, Saturday 12.30pm (all times GMT)Chelsea v Brentford, Saturday 3pmLeeds v Fulham, Saturday 3pmLiverpool v Burnley, Saturday 3pm Continue reading... Show less

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Hi, it’s Emmanuel Hayford. Here’s a look at the highlights from this week’s updates to the Rails codebase.

Lately, it has been a great challenge to get into the world of durable execution. Granted, in the world of web applications we often do not need it. However, anyone who has come in contact with ele... Read more Lately, it has been a great challenge to get into the world of durable execution. Granted, in the world of web applications we often do not need it. However, anyone who has come in contact with electronic payments, money orders, verifications - will likely encounter a need for durable execution. The juggernauts in the space are, of course, Temporal.io - with the recently emerging contender restate following in its footsteps. Both are based on the premise of sagas, controlled by a separate service. There is also DBOS and now there is also absurd and the Vercel Workflow. As it happens, meeting Bouke when I joined Cheddar has spurred my interest in Temporal. I knew someone who did work on the payments infrastructure at Uber (where Temporal came from), and intellectually the problems in the space are just very stimulating. However, as luck would have it, it would take another 2 years at Cheddar before a need would arise for actually using durable execution, in actual features. And in the course of implementing it, a few things turned out to be very invigorating indeed. So, before we go into any libraries or solutions: let’s just contemplate. However, if you are impatient (and a Rails user) - just head to the geneva_drive repo for the grand reveal. Show less