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May 10, 2023 • 37min

Episode 469: Railsconf 2023: A Ruby Community Podcast Live!

Listen to Brittany Martin (The Ruby on Rails Podcast), Jason Charnes (Remote Ruby) and Paul Bahr (Peachtree Sound) as they interview guests from the community on a live podcast at Railsconf 2023 in Atlanta, GA. Guest #1: Aaron Patterson, Senior Staff Engineer at Shopify Guest #2: Irina Nazarova, CEO of Evil Martians Guest #3: Voted on by the community in an online poll: Justin Searls, Meta Programmer at Test Double Guest #4: Voted on by the community live at this session: Britni Alexander, Senior Software Engineer Our Vanna White of Guest Selection: Danielle Greaves, Lead Web Developer, Pittsburgh Cultural Trust Show Notes: A Ruby Community Podcast Live! | Railsconf 2023 Peachtree Sound Substitute Teacher - Key & Peele - YouTube Keynote - Aaron Patterson | Railsconf 2023 Rails as a piece of birthday cake | Railsconf 2023 Evil Martians N.E.A.T. (Not Everything's About Technology) Justin's Field Report from RubyKaiji Hire Britni! | LinkedIn Sponsored By: Honeybadger You won’t know if Honeybadger will really save you time and trouble until you see how it works in your own toolchain. With two lines of code and five minutes, you can see for yourself. Honeybadger automatically hooks into popular web frameworks, job systems, authentication libraries, and front-end JavaScript. Get started today in as little as 5 minutes at Honeybadger.io with plans starting at free!
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May 3, 2023 • 38min

Episode 468: Railsconf 2023 Recap with Drew Bragg and Joël Quenneville

Joël and Drew join Brittany post-conference to discuss their experience at Railsconf 2023 in Atlanta, Georgia. The trio thank the organizers, share tales from speaking and discuss their favorite talks. They wrap by discussing the new Ruby Central individual memberships and their conference plans for the rest of the year. Show Notes: The Bikeshed Code and the Coding Coders who Code it Railsconf In Favor of Ruby Central Memberships Sponsored By: Honeybadger If you want to simplify your stack, and lower your bills, it’s time to check out Honeybager. Honeybadger combines all of those services into one easy to use platform—it’s everything you need to keep production healthy and your customers happy. Get started today in as little as 5 minutes at Honeybadger.io with plans starting at free! Mirror Placement Mirror Placement are the Ruby on Rails & JavaScript recruiters. They are actively engaged with a wide and deep network of Rails, JavaScript, and Full-Stack Open Source engineers and tech leaders we love, with relationships cultivated over 15 years. Contact Brian, co-host of this podcast, here.
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Apr 26, 2023 • 33min

Episode 467: The Rails Foundation with Amanda Perino

Amanda Perino is the newly appointed Executive Director of the Rails Foundation. Brittany interviewed Amanda and the pair discuss all of the exciting initiatives coming out of the Foundation, the Rails community members who are helping with the efforts and advice coming from other software communities. Show Notes: The Rails Foundation Rails World This Week in Rails newsletter The Rails Changelog Podcast Suggestion Form to send ideas to the Rails Foundation the Tightly Coupled Book Club Amanda Brooke Perino (@AmandaBPerino) / Twitter Amanda Perino on LinkedIn Sponsored By: Honeybadger Honeybadger is the application health monitoring tool built for you, the developer who cares about a quality product and happy customers. Start monitoring today at https://www.honeybadger.io/. Honeybadger is free for small teams, and setup takes as little as five minutes. Visit https://www.honeybadger.io/. Atlantis Technology Atlantis is looking for great engineers! Why work at Atlantis? You'll work with great people. You’ll work on projects that change the world. No matter where you are in your career, they’re prepared to help you advance it. Find out more here.
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Apr 19, 2023 • 32min

Episode 466: Pairing on Code and Conference Talks with Selena Small and Michael Milewski

Selena Small and Michael Milewski are a pair of Senior developers from Melbourne, Australia that not only love to pair on code but getting ready for a world tour of conference talks. Fresh off the roles as co-MCs for Rubyconf AU, the pair speak with Jemma and Brittany about why they are advocates for pairing, some pairing horror stories and how they would describe the Australian Ruby community. Show Notes: Failure Driven Failure Driven on Twitch Selena Small (@selenasmall88) / Twitter Michael Milewski (@saramic) · Twitter Selena on Sessionize Michael on Sessionize Sponsored By: Honeybadger As an Engineering Manager or an engineer, too much of your time gets sucked up with downtime issues, troubleshooting, and error tracking. How can you spend more time shipping code and less time putting out fires? Honeybadger is how. It’s a suite of monitoring tools specifically for devs. Get started today in as little as 5 minutes at Honeybadger.io with plans starting at free! Scout APM Experience the perfect blend of efficiency and accuracy with Scout APM. Our performance monitoring solution is tailor-made for Rails developers, providing fast and effective troubleshooting with an intuitive UI and advanced tracing logic. With real-time anomaly detection and instant alerts, you can swiftly resolve issues like N+1 queries and memory bloat, and prevent customer impact. Don't wait any longer to optimize your Rails app performance - sign up for our free 14-day trial today at scoutapm.com/rubyonrails.
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Apr 12, 2023 • 34min

Episode 465: Why Companies Don't Hire Juniors with Alex Ghiculescu

Alex Ghiculescu is the co-founder of Workforce.com, a workforce management product built on Ruby on Rails. The topic of hiring Juniors has been a common theme lately but he joins Brittany and Brian to discuss why companies are actually avoiding it. The trio debate in-office training, salaries and promotions. Show Notes: Workforce.com Why companies don't hire juniors by Alex Ghiculescu If you want to learn more about working at Workforce.com, reach out to: Chicago - Stacey McKnight - smcknight@workforce.com London - Phil Fraser - philip@workforce.com Brisbane - Austin Wilshire - austin@tanda.co For non-junior roles, they will consider folks who don’t live in those places but can commute to them occasionally. Sponsored By: Honeybadger You won’t know if Honeybadger will really save you time and trouble until you see how it works in your own toolchain. With two lines of code and five minutes, you can see for yourself. Honeybadger automatically hooks into popular web frameworks, job systems, authentication libraries, and front-end JavaScript. Get started today in as little as 5 minutes at Honeybadger.io with plans starting at free! Atlantis Technology Atlantis is looking for great engineers! Why work at Atlantis? You'll work with great people. You’ll work on projects that change the world. No matter where you are in your career, they’re prepared to help you advance it. Find out more here.
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Apr 5, 2023 • 35min

Episode 464: What Being a Staff Developer Means at Shopify with Rose Wiegley

Rose Wiegley is a Senior Staff Developer on Shopify’s Payments and Risk team. Jemma is solo hosting today as she interviews Rose about her thoughts on being a staff engineer at Shopify, keynoting at RubyConf Mini and her recent team switch at Shopify. Show Notes: What Being a Staff Developer Means at Shopify by Rose Wiegley RubyConf Mini 2022: Keynote by Rose Wiegley NormConf Talk: Data Driven Promotions Alex Terrasa’s talk, "Here be dragons" ‘Give Away Your Legos’ and Other Commandments for Scaling Startups Rose W (@rose_w) / Twitter rose (@rose@ruby.social) Rose's Blog Sponsored By: Honeybadger If you want to simplify your stack, and lower your bills, it’s time to check out Honeybager. Honeybadger combines all of those services into one easy to use platform—it’s everything you need to keep production healthy and your customers happy. Get started today in as little as 5 minutes at Honeybadger.io with plans starting at free! Miro Brainstorm, solve problems, and reach better decisions faster as a team on Miro’s visual collaboration platform. Whether you use it for Agile rituals, technical diagramming, or as a project hub, Miro brings together developers and their workflows in one shared space. Check out The Ruby on Rails Podcast community board at miro.com/ruby/ where you can learn about the hosts, leave feedback, and more!
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Mar 29, 2023 • 36min

Episode 463: The Tightly Coupled Book Club with Mina and Aji Slater

Mina Slater (she/her) is a senior developer with Mission Control, thoughtbot's DevOps, platform engineering and SRE team. Aji Slater (they/them) is a development team lead at thoughtbot on Lift-Off, thoughtbot’s team that specializes in new product development and launch. Together, they guest on the podcast to discuss their new podcast: The Tightly Coupled Book Club. They pitch the concept to Brittany, ask Brittany for advice and discuss feedback from Brittany's initial listen. Show Notes: Episode 431: For the Love of Consulting and the Cloud with Mina Slater Ruby on Rails Guides the Tightly Coupled Book Club Ruby Book Club Podcast Mina Slater (@mina@thoughtbot.social) Aji Slater (@aji@thoughtbot.social) Sponsored By: Honeybadger Honeybadger is the application health monitoring tool built for you, the developer who cares about a quality product and happy customers. Start monitoring today at https://www.honeybadger.io/. Honeybadger is free for small teams, and setup takes as little as five minutes. Visit https://www.honeybadger.io/. Miro Brainstorm, solve problems, and reach better decisions faster as a team on Miro’s visual collaboration platform. Whether you use it for Agile rituals, technical diagramming, or as a project hub, Miro brings together developers and their workflows in one shared space. Check out The Ruby on Rails Podcast community board at miro.com/ruby/ where you can learn about the hosts, leave feedback, and more!
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Mar 22, 2023 • 35min

Episode 462: Scarpe Diem: Seize the Shoes (Brittany + Nick)

What is Nick? Well, Nick has a thing! He tells Brittany all about his new project: Scarpe. From there, Brittany steals some free consulting from Nick when she presents an authentication problem she is trying to tackle on a side project. Nick shares his experience at a coveted Sandi Metz workshop and they wrap on a personal update from Brittany. Show Notes: Shoes! The easiest little GUI toolkit, for Ruby why-archive/nobody-knows-shoes.pdf at master - GitHub Glimmer DSL for SWT 4.26.0.1 - GitHub scarpe-team / scarpe schwad (@schwad_rb) / Twitter Hackety Hack - Wikipedia Bullet Train: The Ruby on Rails SaaS Template CanCanCan - The authorization Gem for Ruby on Rails Sandi Metz Sponsored By: Honeybadger Recent studies found that downtime can cost $427 per minute for small businesses, and up to $9,000 per minute for medium-sized businesses. That's every single minute!  A monthly subscription with Honeybadger helps you prevent costly downtime by giving you all the monitoring you need in one easy-to-use platform so you can quickly understand what's going on and how to fix it, which helps you stay in business. Get started today in as little as 5 minutes at Honeybadger.io with plans starting at free! Miro Brainstorm, solve problems, and reach better decisions faster as a team on Miro’s visual collaboration platform. Whether you use it for Agile rituals, technical diagramming, or as a project hub, Miro brings together developers and their workflows in one shared space. Check out The Ruby on Rails Podcast community board at miro.com/ruby/ where you can learn about the hosts, leave feedback, and more!
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Mar 15, 2023 • 34min

Episode 461: ccyalater and Merge Conflict Hit the Track! with Colleen Leonard

Colleen Leonard has been working in tech since 2015, first as a Front-End Developer and then as a recruiter. She is currently a Technical Recruiter at Test Double. She joins Brittany to chat technical recruitment in Part 1 and then roller derby in Part 2. Let's roll. Show Notes & Links: You can follow Colleen on the following platforms: Colleen Leonard / LinkedIn Colleen Leonard (@_colleenleonard) / Twitter Colleen Leonard on (@ccleonard ) / Mastodon You can follow Test Double on the following platforms: Read the latest at https://blog.testdouble.com/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/testdouble Mastodon: https://mastodon.world/@testdouble Sponsored By: Miro Brainstorm, solve problems, and reach better decisions faster as a team on Miro’s visual collaboration platform. Whether you use it for Agile rituals, technical diagramming, or as a project hub, Miro brings together developers and their workflows in one shared space. Check out The Ruby on Rails Podcast community board at miro.com/ruby/ where you can learn about the hosts, leave feedback, and more! Honeybadger Honeybadger monitors your cron jobs and services to make sure they don't silently disappear. When Honeybadger is quiet, life is good. Check monitoring off your todo list. Try Honeybadger free for 15 days.
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Mar 8, 2023 • 33min

Episode 460: The State of Rails Hiring in 2023 (Brittany + Brian)

In 2022, Rails Hiring is Still Hot was our most listened to episode! By popular demand, Brian is back to give us the state of the Ruby on Rails hiring market for 2023. Brittany and Brian discuss his clients, advice for those who have a job and advice for those who are seeking a role in this weird market. Show Notes & Links: Episode 419: Rails Hiring is Still Hot (Brittany + Brian) Mirror Placement Sponsored By: Honeybadger Status Pages now come with incident management! Build confidence with a public status page that shows your live service status, incident history, and more—and bring your own domain! Transparency inspires trust—when your next outage happens, communication is key. Go to Honeybadger.io to learn more. JetBrains RubyMine RubyMine is an intelligent cross-platform IDE that provides all essential tools for Ruby and Ruby on Rails developers out of the box. It offers smart code completion and analysis, easy code navigation, safe automated refactorings, an interactive debugger, Git workflow support, database integration, and many other tools. All tools are integrated together in a highly customizable, productive, user-friendly environment. To get a special 20% discount for the listeners of The Ruby on Rails Podcast just enter the discount code railspodcast during purchase. You can apply this discount to JetBrains All products pack and use IDEs of your choice.

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