Spacecraft! The Care and Keeping of a Legacy Application
Allegorical journey through strategies for assessing, improving, and maintaining legacy Rails applications, using a spacecraft metaphor to explain complex concepts in simple terms.
Testing Legacy Code When You Dislike Tests - And Legacy Code
Discover strategies for effective legacy code testing, focusing on high-value tests that minimize change costs and transform legacy code into resilient, easily evolving systems.
Your Test Suite Is Making Too Many Database Calls
Learn techniques to optimize your test suite by reducing unnecessary database calls, profiling hotspots, and writing efficient code. Improve build times and overall performance.
Your TDD Treasure Map
Discover strategies for building robust test suites and identifying test cases in TDD. Learn valuable tools for both beginners and experienced developers to enhance your testing skills.
Don't Touch That
Explore debugging strategies through playful experimentation with Rails internals. Learn to override, extend, and disable framework components to gain deeper insights into Ruby on Rails functionality.
The Mrs Triggs Problem
Explores attribution bias in tech, challenging default narratives about who provides value. Offers strategies to create a more inclusive industry and recognize contributions from all individuals.
The Queue Continuum - Applied Queuing Theory
Explore queuing theory, parallelism, and concurrency in Rails applications through a Star Trek-themed presentation. Learn to optimize scaling, manage resources, and improve performance using Sidekiq and Puma.
Gem Install - What Could Go Wrong?
Explore the risks of installing gems in Ruby applications and learn preventive measures against potential attacks in your dependencies.
Computer Science You Might Not Want to Know
Explore the relevance of Computer Science topics for Rails developers, examining their practical applications and potential limitations in day-to-day work.
Browser History Confessional - Searching My Recent Searches
Explore search-driven development through real examples, categorizing information types and gaining tips for efficient knowledge retrieval in software development challenges.
Scaling Rails with JRuby in 2022
Explore JRuby's benefits for scaling Rails applications, including improved performance, resource efficiency, and true parallel threading on the Java Virtual Machine.
The Little Engines That Could
Explore Rails Engines: their nature, implementation, and use cases. Learn when and how to leverage these powerful tools in your Ruby on Rails projects for modular and efficient development.
Do You Trust Me? - A Look at Trust, Time, and Teams
Explore the psychology of trust in engineering teams, its relationship to time, and strategies for better trust rituals to enhance collaboration and productivity.
Evaluating Cultural Fit + Culturesmithing - Everyone Influences Culture
Discover strategies to assess organizational culture, improve workplace dynamics, and implement positive changes. Learn techniques for personal energy management and effective cultural influence.
Leveling Up from Planning to Production
Strategies for senior engineers to manage complex projects, from planning to production. Insights on task management, progress reporting, and handling uncertainties in large-scale engineering work.
Finding the Needle in the Stack Trace - APM Logs-in-Context - New Relic
Discover efficient debugging techniques using APM Logs-in-Context, meta programming, and New Relic tools to quickly identify and resolve issues in your Ruby on Rails applications.
More Engineers, More Problems - Solutions for Big Teams
Strategies for managing large engineering teams, addressing challenges in communication, coordination, and code quality as organizations scale. Insights from Chime's experience with rapid team growth.
You Have 2 Seconds to Respond - Atob
Explore techniques for optimizing Rails application response times, focusing on strategies to achieve sub-2-second performance and enhance user experience.
Growing Your Background Job Knowledge
Explore background job processing in Rails, covering best practices, performance optimization, and advanced techniques for efficient asynchronous task management.
Bringing Your Rails Monolith Along As The Business Grows
Strategies for scaling Rails monoliths as businesses expand, focusing on maintaining performance and adaptability without complete rewrite or microservices transition.
Diversity in Engineering - A Community Perspective
Explore diversity challenges in engineering, focusing on women and nonbinary individuals in tech. Learn strategies for inclusive workplaces, representation, and community support.