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Vendor and Infrastructure Lock-In - RUBY 557 Aug 03, 2022

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Vendor lock-in refers to a situation whereby the cost of switching to a different vendor or platform is so high that you are essentially stuck with the original platform. Today on the show, Charles and Dave share personal stories of how they were forced to continue using a specific platform and what they did to rectify the various scenarios, plus they provide their insights on workaround strategies and how to prevent this from happening in the first place.
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Designing your API to be more agnostic to the vendor
Changing environment variables
Creating a rails applications with variables in mind
How to avoid doing things manually vs. the risk of staying with the current platform
Using rails credentials that can be shared for all connections within an infrastructure
The risks of putting all your eggs in one software application basket

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RAILS_ENV - Ruby 556 Jul 27, 2022

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How do you manage your actual rails environment configurations? When you create a new rails application, do you utilize the provided development, test, and production environments, or deviate? Today on the show, Dave and Valentino share their best practices on how they manage their environment variables and workflows within their rails environments.
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Staging environments
QA environments
Replicating data and sampling strategies
Local environment testing
Creating Ruby objects
Internal API and servers vs. cloud data apps

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Managing Files and Text in Rails with ActiveStorage and ActionText - Ruby 555 Jul 20, 2022

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Today on the show, Charles shares about his current projects and inner workings related to managing files and text on his various podcast portals. The panel discusses their history with legacy platforms, their personal tool preferences, and the pros and cons of ActiveStorage and ActionText.
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Paperclip, Attachment_Fu, CarrierWave, ConfiguringFog and other legacy tools
FTP for file storage
CDN support and preferences
Digital ocean servers
Trix compared to other rich text editors

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Build an Admin for Your Rails App Easily with Avo - Bonus Jul 15, 2022

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Today Charles talks with Adrian Marin, a developer and founder of Avo, a Ruby on Rails admin framework. Coming with 10 years of developer experience, we discuss how Avo sets itself apart from other typical systems by allowing you to step out of the limitations of DSL and write custom code to meet the needs of each customer. We discuss the three main parts of this fully tested framework, and talk about how you can kick the tires before diving in. With such a wide range of companies successfully utilizing Avo, it’s something definitely worth checking out!
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Speed Up Your Rails App by Lazy Loading Your N+1 Queries - RUBY 554 Jul 13, 2022

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Wouldn't it be great if ActiveRecord didn't make you think about eager loading and it just did the "right" thing by default? Lazy loading is extremely helpful when the list of associations to load is determined dynamically. Today on the show, Charles and Luke interview Evgeniy Demin, Principal Engineer at Toptal. They discuss how you can speed up your processes by lazy loading your N+1 queries, plus various tools to optimize your workflows.
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N+1 queries and cases
ActiveRecord methodology
Developing new features quickly
Various tools and ideas
The fulfill method
Alternative stacks
Ruby Tik-Tok

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A Novel Type and Effect-Guided Synthesis Tool for Ruby with Sankha Guria - RUBY 553 Jul 06, 2022

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In recent years, researchers have explored component-based synthesis, which aims to automatically construct programs that operate by composing calls to existing APIs. However, prior work has not considered efficient synthesis of methods with side effects that update a database. Today on the show, Sankha Guria shares about his research in this area, introducing a new approach to type and effect-guided synthesis tools for Ruby.
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What is program synthesis?
Lambda functions
Generating in Ruby
Assistive code generation
Benchmarking your code
Various tools
Co-pilot vs. pilot
Scratch software for kids
Applying program synthesis to web assemblies
How to use program synthesis to generates tests

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Development on the Road - RUBY 552 Jun 29, 2022

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How do you develop remotely in new ecosystems such as when you are on vacation, in a coffee shop, or traveling for business? The panel today discusses various strategies on how to manage these environments to achieve the most efficient outcomes.
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Visual Studio Code and remote SSH extensions
VPN tunnel networks
Distractions, comfort
Internet issues
Time zone challenges
Squid proxies
Personalized keyboards and monitors
Smart suitcases

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Unfinished Business - RUBY 551 Jun 22, 2022

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Unfinished technology, unfinished products, unfinished gems, unfinished concepts, unfinished code, unfinished libraries, and more. In software development, everyone has those projects that never get finished or ever get started. Luke and Valentino banter about the various aspects of unfinished business, specifically technology ideas – from creating to implementing to fixing to scrapping.
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Kafka and Karafka Integrations with Maciej Mensfeld - RUBY 550 Jun 15, 2022

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Making his second appearance on the podcast, Maciej Mensfeld joins the show to share his latest developments with his Kafka and Karafka integrations and libraries. He shares his framework for Kafka 2.0, his personal approach to Rails, and how to integrate Kafka and Karafka most effectively. The panel also discusses regulation and security risks with open-source libraries for developers.
About this Episode…1. What is Kafka and Karafka and how are they used?
2. The Rails mindset with Kafka and Karafka vs. batches
3. What is making Karafka faster?
4. Open-source libraries and regulation and security risks
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Your Tools Matter: Should you change your tooling? - RUBY 549 Jun 08, 2022

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John Epperson and Luke Stutters discuss developer tools - whether those are the IDEs or Text Editors we use, the gems/libraries we include in our projects, or the OS we make use of. We talk about How we decide to replace our tools, and we talk about a number of tools that we use, the ones that we like and the ones that we wish had better replacements.
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