The Ruby on Rails Podcast

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Episode 343: 344: Strategic Programs & Arctic Code Vault @ Github with Kyle Daigle Nov 11, 2020

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Former host of the podcast, Kyle Daigle is a Senior Director of Strategic Programs at GitHub working on cross company projects to help GitHubbers and the developer community accomplish the best work of their life with GitHub. He and Brittany catchup and discuss the incredible Arctic Code Vault.

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Episode 342: 343: Finance for Software Developers with Aaron Kahn Nov 04, 2020

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Aaron Kahn is a Certified Financial Planner at Wealth Management Strategies, Inc., a fully-independent Pittsburgh-based registered investment advisor. He joined Brittany to answer burning, impactful financial questions especially for software developers.

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Episode 341: 342: [Maintainable] Brittany Martin: How to Quit Your Job and Leave Your Code in Good Hands Oct 28, 2020

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Brittany guested on the Maintainable Podcast. Robby and her discuss the mistakes that developers make when discussing technical debt with stakeholders and why it is important to write automated tests against a live/production API.

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Episode 340: 341: Fearless Principles with Jason Taylor Oct 21, 2020

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Jason Taylor is currently a Principal Software Engineer at TextUs. He has been a software engineer for 15 years but it is his first ever podcast appearance! He and Brittany dig into what being a principal means (key: confidence) and discuss some spooky Rails horror stories.

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Episode 339: 340: dry-rb, ROM.rb & “My Time with Rails is Up” with Piotr Solnica Oct 14, 2020

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Ruby is more than Rails. Brittany welcomed Piotr Solnica, Senior Ruby Backend Engineer at Castle.io and creator of ROM.rb and dry-rb core team member to the show to discuss his new job, OSS contributions and why he left Rails.

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Episode 338: 339: kuby & Rails Deployments with Cameron Dutro Oct 07, 2020

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Cameron Dutro believes we need Active Deployment like we have Active Record and Active Storage. That's what kuby is - an easy way to deploy your Ruby on Rails application without getting your dev-ops black belt first.

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Episode 337: 338: Learn Someday & Tech for Good with Rachel Green Sep 30, 2020

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Rachel Green is a web developer based in Houston, Texas with experience in building B2B, e-commerce, and enterprise applications. She is an admin for the Ruby on Rails Slack group and is also involved with civic engagement and advocacy efforts and is passionate about the potential for tech to do good for others.

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Episode 336: 337: Chipping Away at a Monolith with Tori Huang Sep 23, 2020

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Tori Huang, software engineer at Gusto, and her team recently embarked on a journey toward unbundling part of Gusto’s monolithic Ruby on Rails app. She and Brittany discuss knowing when to uncouple a service and how to identify orphan code.

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Episode 335: 336: Brittany Has A New Job(!) && Co-Host Catchup Sep 16, 2020

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It's been hinted around but Brittany has a new job! She is the new Backend Engineering Lead at TextUs. She invites Nick back to the show to pepper her with questions about switching, remote work and a new codebase. In turn, Brittany asks Nick for an update on Past Rubies.

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Episode 334: 335: AllTrails is All Rails with James Graham Sep 09, 2020

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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.

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