254 RR Building/Scaling a Rails SaaS App with Derrick Reimer

02:25 - Julia Evans Introduction

• Twitter 
• GitHub 
• Blog

02:52 - Derrick Reimer Introduction

• Twitter 
• GitHub 
• Blog
• Drip
• SaaS = Software as a Service
• Codetree

05:25 - SaaS Apps vs Other Web Development Projects06:18 - Scaling08:44 - Gathering Feedback12:01 - How has underlying technology helped and gotten in the way?

• PostgreSQL

15:18 - Choosing Boring Technology20:49 - Scaling (Cont’d) 

• Caching
• Redis

29:07 - Strategies to Keep the Application Manageable31:41 - What makes technology boring and safe to use? Evaluating Technologies

• “Boringification”

35:43 - Building Something Useful vs Building Something for Entertainment40:13 - PrioritizationPicks writegif (Derrick)
RuboCop (Derrick)
htop (Jessica)
Java Concurrency in Practice (Julia)
HOW TO PRONOUNCE GIF! (David)
Teaching a local Ruby class (Avdi)Special Guests: Derrick Reimer and Julia Evans.

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