Daniel Colson

Daniel is a Senior Software Engineer on the Ruby Architecture team at GitHub. He's worked on Rails applications of all sizes, and contributed to numerous open source projects. Daniel was formerly a composer, violist da gamba, and professor of music.

The Very Hungry Transaction

Have your database transactions become a liability? Transactions are an essential tool, and frameworks like Rails make them easy to write. But it's also easy to fall into some dangerous patterns that can threaten your data integrity and application availability. Find out more before it's too late!