Episode 334: 335: AllTrails is All Rails with James Graham

As the leader of the AllTrails Engineering team, 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.

Links for this episode:

• AllTrails: Trail Guides & Maps for Hiking & Camping
  
• About RailsCasts - RailsCasts | Ryan Bates
  
• The Bakery Model for Building Container Images
  
• taskrabbit/makara: A Read-Write Proxy for Connections
  
• AllTrails Careers
  
• Ansible Tower | Ansible.com
  
• Episode Introduction and Outro by Michael Springer
  
• Episode Music: "Funkorama" by Kevin MacLeod
  

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