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166: Are Services the New Rewrite?

August 10th, 2018  |  37 mins 17 secs

Chris & Derek discuss the world of services, exploring the various forms SOA can take, the oft stated benefits, and some of the pitfalls they commonly see in the
wild. The discussion ranges from alternative architectures, guidelines for how to think about services within your platform, and even includes an anecdote about thoughtbot's foray into the world of SOA on Upcase.

165: The Tables Have Turned

August 3rd, 2018  |  40 mins 33 secs

Chris & Derek talk about beginnings and ends, borrowing from their consulting mindset for a conversation spanning CI, deployment, communication, team structure, and everything in between.

164: A Piece of My Identity

July 27th, 2018  |  47 mins 8 secs

163: Insert Some Colons For Me

July 20th, 2018  |  38 mins 59 secs

After Sean confronts some breaking changes to Diesel, we discuss what we like about Visual Studio Code and how changing your tools can change your perspective.

162: You Have Ruined Your Rails App (Sam Phippen)

July 13th, 2018  |  42 mins 17 secs

Sam Phippen joins us to discuss the maintenance burden of supporting old Rubies, service oriented architecture, and explorations of GraphQL and graph databases.

161: Re-Incoherence

July 6th, 2018  |  39 mins 50 secs

Rails performance, rebalancing coherence, and themes from career advice requests.

160: Praise Hands Emoji 🙌 (Vaidehi Joshi)

June 29th, 2018  |  47 mins 31 secs

We're joined by Vaidehi Joshi to discuss her multimedia empire, conference talk prep, getting started with computer science, and the applicability of a computer science education in every day development work. We wrap the episode with live Q&A from our RailsConf audience.

159: Confusing and Hard to Use

June 22nd, 2018  |  23 mins 39 secs

An ORM that's a pleasure to use with raw SQL when needed? Sean discusses how that can be. Plus, Derek shares a new and exciting way for migrations to break!

158: This is How I Ruin Meetings (Aaron Patterson)

June 15th, 2018  |  47 mins 1 sec

We're joined by Aaron Patterson for puns. Aaron also updates us on compacting GC for Ruby and Ruby 2.6's JIT compiler before telling us how he really feels about functional programming.

157: Whiz-Bangy Frontend Thing (Chris Toomey)

June 8th, 2018  |  42 mins 12 secs

Chris Toomey joins Derek to talk about their shared experience in Elm and their excitement about GraphQL.

156: It's a Commercial Enterprise (Olivier Lacan)

June 1st, 2018  |  41 mins 4 secs

We speak with Olivier Lacan about KeepAChangelog.com, tooling improvements for better developer experience, and the emotional impact of shutting down CodeSchool.com

155: Abstractions on Abstractions (Alex Sullivan)

May 25th, 2018  |  44 mins 9 secs

Amanda is joined by Alex Sullivan, Android developer at thoughtbot, to discuss the state of React Native and its new competitor from Google, Flutter.

154: We All Have Work to Do (Eileen Uchitelle)

May 18th, 2018  |  41 mins 7 secs

Eileen Uchitelle joins us live from RailsConf to talk about exciting improvements coming to Rails 6, problems encountered by larger Rails apps, strategies for upgrading Rails and more!

153: 🎶 I Would Lose 3,000 Crates, and I Would Lose 12,000 More 🎶

May 11th, 2018  |  36 mins 42 secs

Is the bug in Postgres? Sean takes over operations of crates.io and keeps himself very busy. We also wrap up our experience at RailsConf.

152: I Look For Stories (Nickolas Means)

May 4th, 2018  |  31 mins 13 secs

We catch up with Nick Means at RailsConf and discuss storytelling, "human error", advice for job seekers, and the idea of licensing software developers.

151: Scheming About Schema

April 27th, 2018  |  35 mins 11 secs

Derek & Sean discuss their final preparations for RailsConf, the role of Diesel's schema.rs is in comparison to schema.rb in Rails, and how Derek took down production.