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Abstractions II Debrief
This past August, I was lucky enough to attened (and speak!) at Abstractions II. It me! I was excited to speak at Abstractions II, but I was also really happy to just be an attendee. -
From NoOps to AllOps
I have really enjoyed Micah’s recent posts, Embracing NoOps and Are you really ready for serverless?. We share a firm belief that all code is a liability, and that includes “infrastructure as code” code. -
A First Look at Github Actions
GitHub Actions, the new offering for CI/CD and other automated workflows, is still in beta just out of beta and looks promising. In order to get myself acquainted with GitHub Actions, I used the nodenv test suite as a chance to try it out. -
Downloading Large Heroku Postgres Backups
Easily one of my favorite things about developing apps with Heroku is its bevy of console commands that make it easy to manage Postgres databases. Recently, however, as one of my apps crossed the threshold from a small “hobby” tier database to a larger “standard” database, the heroku CLI started warning me that several of my favorite commands could risk degrading the database’s performance and its availability to my production application. -
A Model View Controller Pattern for React
React is an amazing library. Over the last 5 years it has transformed the landscape of frontend development and spawned an incredible ecosystem of tools, libraries, and patterns. Over that time, React has changed quite a bit. -
Let's hash this out.
Ruby hashes are wonderfully versatile. You can store any kind of object using any kind of key and do all sorts of wacky and magical things. Hashes bring joy. Odes have been written to the wonderful “hashrocket” (Ruby’s affectionate name for the => operator). -
Much Ado About Bike Sheds, Part III - Spotting
This is the third post in a series of our takes on bike shedding. After understanding the origin story and how we might lose our empathy in our crusade against bike shedding can we still glean anything valuable from the infamous bike shed? -
Much Ado About Bike Sheds, Part II - Deconstructing
This is the second of a series of blog posts about bike sheds. In part one, we explored the history of the bike shed story, you can read part one here. -
Much Ado About Bike Sheds, Part I
If you’re working in software, there’s good odds that you’ve run into the phrase “bike shedding” at least once. Maybe you were in a meeting or a group chat and sensed the discussion had wandered a bit. -
3 keys to upgrading Rails
The recent release of Rails 6 means Rails 4.2 will no longer receive any further updates—including critical security patches. It also means that a lot of teams are suddenly quite motivated to figure out how to pull off a major upgrade (or two; or three) with minimal risk of failure or disruption to feature development.
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