Brittany Martin
Brittany Martin is an Engineering Manager at Shogun, co-host of The Ruby on Rails Podcast, and she plays roller derby for Steel City Roller Derby under the pseudonym “Merge Conflict”.
She lives in Pittsburgh, PA and she tweets at @brittjmartin
Brittany Martin has hosted 399 Episodes.
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Episode 343: 344: Strategic Programs & Arctic Code Vault @ Github with Kyle Daigle
November 11th, 2020 | 39 mins 7 secs
Former host of the podcast, Kyle Daigle is a Senior Director of Strategic Programs at GitHub working on cross company projects to help GitHubbers and the developer community. He and Brittany catchup and discuss the incredible Arctic Code Vault.
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Episode 342: 343: Finance for Software Developers with Aaron Kahn
November 4th, 2020 | 30 mins 8 secs
Aaron Kahn is a Certified Financial Planner at Wealth Management Strategies, Inc., a fully-independent Pittsburgh-based registered investment advisor. He joined Brittany to answer burning, impactful financial questions especially for software developers.
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Episode 341: 342: [Maintainable] Brittany Martin: How to Quit Your Job and Leave Your Code in Good Hands
October 28th, 2020 | 50 mins 17 secs
Brittany guested on the Maintainable Podcast. Robby and her discuss the mistakes that developers make when discussing technical debt with stakeholders and why it is important to write automated tests against a live/production API.
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Episode 340: 341: Fearless Principles with Jason Taylor
October 21st, 2020 | 23 mins 47 secs
Jason Taylor is currently a Principal Software Engineer at TextUs and it is his first ever podcast appearance. He and Brittany dig into what being a principal means (key: confidence) and discuss some spooky Rails horror stories.
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Episode 339: 340: dry-rb, ROM.rb & “My Time with Rails is Up” with Piotr Solnica
October 14th, 2020 | 29 mins 12 secs
Ruby is more than Rails. Brittany welcomed Piotr Solnica, Senior Ruby Backend Engineer at Castle.io and creator of ROM.rb and dry-rb core team member to the show to discuss his new job, OSS contributions and why he left Rails.
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Episode 338: 339: kuby & Rails Deployments with Cameron Dutro
October 7th, 2020 | 28 mins 46 secs
Cameron Dutro believes we need Active Deployment like we have Active Record and Active Storage. That's what kuby is - an easy way to deploy your Ruby on Rails application without getting your dev-ops black belt first.
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Episode 337: 338: Learn Someday & Tech for Good with Rachel Green
September 30th, 2020 | 26 mins 26 secs
Rachel Green is a web developer based in Houston, Texas. She is an admin for the Ruby on Rails Slack group and is also involved with civic engagement and advocacy efforts and is passionate about the potential for tech to do good for others.
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Episode 336: 337: Chipping Away at a Monolith with Tori Huang
September 23rd, 2020 | 26 mins 39 secs
Tori Huang, software engineer at Gusto, and her team recently embarked on a journey toward unbundling part of Gusto’s monolithic Ruby on Rails app. She and Brittany discuss knowing when to uncouple a service and how to identify orphan code.
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Episode 335: 336: Brittany Has A New Job(!) && Co-Host Catchup
September 16th, 2020 | 34 mins 2 secs
Brittany has a new job! She is the new Backend Engineering Lead at TextUs. She invites Nick to pepper her with questions about switching, remote work and a new codebase. Brittany asks Nick for an update on Past Rubies.
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Episode 334: 335: AllTrails is All Rails with James Graham
September 9th, 2020 | 23 mins 10 secs
James Graham and his team are responsible for expanding AllTrails beyond a functional tool to a fun and personalized, trail discovery experience all supported by highly scalable web services -- including Ruby on Rails.
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Episode 333: 334: Simple Lovable Complete with Michael Springer
September 2nd, 2020 | 20 mins 43 secs
The announcer of the podcast, Michael Springer guested on the show. Michael is a software engineer at JazzHR and he spends his free time tinkering on hobbyist projects ranging from writing chat bots to building plastic robots.
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Episode 332: 333: Logic That Serverless Logic with Ken Collins
August 26th, 2020 | 22 mins 14 secs
Ken Collins is an AWS Serverless Hero & Principal Engineer at Custom Ink where he focuses on growing their DevOps culture. Ken continues his open source Rails career by focusing on solutions that leverage AWS Lambda with Rails using a gem called Lamby.
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Episode 331: 332: 2020 Ruby on Rails Community Survey with Robby Russell
August 19th, 2020 | 30 mins 16 secs
Robby is the creator of Oh My Z-Shell, host of the Maintainable Software Podcast, and CEO of Planet Argon. On his second appearance, he and Brittany review the results of the 2020 Ruby on Rails Community Survey.
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Episode 330: 330: Oh My Zsh & Maintainable Rails with Robby Russell
August 12th, 2020 | 31 mins 22 secs
Making his first appearance since 2018, Robby Russell is back on the show. Robby is the creator of Oh My Z-Shell, host of the Maintainable Software Podcast, and CEO of Planet Argon, a software consultancy.
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Episode 329: 329: All My Best Programming Tips with Jason Swett
August 6th, 2020 | 33 mins 11 secs
Jason Swett is a developer, speaker, author and the host of The Rails with Jason podcast. He and Brittany discussed bringing diversity into the podcasting space and some of his favorite tips from his blog post, "All my best programming tips".
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Episode 328: 328: rails new cool_app --minimal with Haroon Ahmed
July 29th, 2020 | 26 mins 23 secs
This week, Brittany is joined by Haroon Ahmed, a programmer from Coventry, UK. He is a Hacker, Rubyist, and open source contributor. They discuss his latest contribution to Rails (--minimal) and how OS can open up career opportunities for developers.