Episodes
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Episode 279: 279: Scaling & Training Rails with Anand Dhillon
July 17th, 2019 | 28 mins 8 secs
Anand Dhillon is responsible for technical development and strategy at Cover as the CTO & Co-Founder. He guested on the podcast this week to discuss Domain Drive Design, Event Driven Architecture and how he implemented machine learning at Cover.
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Episode 278: 278: Introducing Sorbet: A Ruby Typechecker with Paul Tarjan
July 10th, 2019 | 22 mins 48 secs
Paul Tarjan is a lifelong nerd, juggler and engineer. Nowadays, he works at Stripe on developer productivity and infrastructural components. He is the technical lead of Sorbet, a new static type checker for Ruby.
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Episode 277: 277: Caching GraphQL with Michael Kelly
July 3rd, 2019 | 27 mins 52 secs
Joining Brittany this week is Michael Kelly, a Senior Engineer with Stackshare and a passionate contributor to the open source ecosystem. He is the author of the graphql-cache gem, a caching plugin for graphql-ruby.
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Episode 276: 276: Introducing ActionView::Component with Joel Hawksley
June 25th, 2019 | 29 mins 13 secs
Joel Hawksley is a software engineer at GitHub. He recently served as the technical lead for Project Paper Cuts, incorporating feedback from the community into GitHub. He is now the lead on introducing support for ActionView::Component into Rails core.
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Episode 275: 275: ITP 2.1, Github is on Fire and Mechanical Keyboards with Brittany & Nick
June 19th, 2019 | 34 mins 28 secs
Nick Schwaderer and Brittany Martin talk about all of the cool things that are happening in their worlds. Tune in to dive into robots, the great cookie debate, Github acquisitions and new features and, of course, keyboards.
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Episode 274: 274: Investing In Your Side Hustle with Scott Pio
June 11th, 2019 | 22 mins
Roller Derby Nation is a growing network, dedicated to serving roller derby fans and their skaters. Brittany invited its founder, Scott Pio, on to the show to discuss dedication to your side hustle.
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Episode 273: 273: GraphQL Migration: A Use Case for Metaprogramming with Shawnee Gao
June 4th, 2019 | 24 mins 39 secs
Shawnee is a Fullstack Software Engineer on Square’s Business Operations Platform team. Her work focuses on creating robust and scalable APIs. This is what lead to her interest in ruby meta-programming and GraphQL!
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Episode 272: 272: Terrific Tech Bets with Sean Devine
May 24th, 2019 | 33 mins 45 secs
Brittany welcomed back Sean Devine, former host of the Ruby on Rails podcast , and now CEO of XBE. Along with catching up, Sean and Brittany discussed betting on solid technologies and his advice for technical CEOs.
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Episode 271: 271: MEGA Railsconf 2019 Recap with Chris Oliver
May 7th, 2019 | 53 mins 9 secs
Chris Oliver, creator of GoRails and co-host of the Remote Ruby podcast, joined Nick Schwaderer to discuss his experience at Railsconf 2019. They also dive into form builder changes, documentation and ponder when Rails 6 will be released.
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Episode 270: 270: Lamby & The AWS of T-Shirts with Ken Collins
April 30th, 2019 | 19 mins 44 secs
Ken Collins is a Staff Engineer at Custom Ink focusing on DevOps and eCommerce in Rails. The minitest advocate recounted the origins of Lamby, a simple Rails & AWS Lambda integration using Rack with Brittany.
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Episode 269: 269: Fixing Flaky Tests Like a Detective with Sonja Peterson
April 25th, 2019 | 15 mins 15 secs
Sonja Peterson is a senior software engineer at Devoted Health, working in Go and Typescript. Sonja guested on the show to speak with Brittany about her upcoming RailsConf talk, transitioning to Go and to spill on her favorite crime novels.
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Episode 268: 268: Origins of Discourse & Changing Your Developer Mindset with Sam Saffron
April 18th, 2019 | 33 mins 39 secs
Sam Saffron is the co-founder of Discourse. He loves writing performance improvements in Ruby. Sam joined Brittany from Australia to discuss his blog post, "Why I stuck with Windows for 6 years while developing Discourse".
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Episode 267: 267: The Evolution of RubyMotion/DragonRuby with Lori Olson
April 9th, 2019 | 26 mins 38 secs
RubyMotion, soon to be DragonRuby, empowers developers to write cross-platform apps for iOS, Android and OS X in Ruby. Lori Olson joined Brittany on the show to discuss the evolution of the framework and her mobile development courses.
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Episode 266: 266: Dodging Ubuntu End of Life & Ruby on Rails DevOps with Justin Snair
April 2nd, 2019 | 24 mins 49 secs
Ubuntu 14.04, a common Ruby on Rails hosting environment, reached its end of life on April 30, 2019. Brittany brought on Justin Snair, Director of Cloud Infrastructure for PCT, to discuss his custom script for upgrading their hosting environments.
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Episode 265: 265: Rails 6 Showcase Showdown with Edouard Chin
March 19th, 2019 | 44 mins 32 secs
Guest host, Nick Schwaderer, chatted with Edouard Chin, Production Engineer at Shopify about one of the biggest Rails releases to date: Rails 6. Tune in to hear which features Nick and Edouard are most excited to use at their respective jobs.
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Episode 264: 264: Transitioning from Client Services to Products with Tom Rossi
March 13th, 2019 | 24 mins 43 secs
Tom Rossi is the cofounder of Higher Pixels, the company behind several Ruby on Rails built web products. He joined Brittany from sunny Florida to talk about transitioning from a client services business to a product company and being intentionally small.