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484: Ruby On Rails: The Podcast with Brittany Martin

Giant Robots Smashing Into Other Giant Robots

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The Consequences of Not Keeping Up With Your Application Maintenance

The security updates, those happen across gems and the platform sort of tools that are there. And so if you're not keeping those up to date, your exposure, your vulnerability to being hacked or having a bad actor come into your application starts growing on you. The other ones that can come up is there's new interfaces at these third-party services. They may be updating their APIs, they may be updating how you're supposed to work with their tool. And then finally, there's this long-term sort of code change that just builds up over time If you're notKeeping it refactored for the changes that are upcoming in the language or the gems that you work with.

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