The Ruby on Rails Podcast Elise Shaffer and Brian Mariani
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The Ruby on Rails Podcast, a weekly conversation about Ruby on Rails, open source software, and the programming profession. Co-hosted by Elise Shaffer, Brian Mariani, Jemma Issroff and Nick Schwaderer. Edited by Peachtree Sound.
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Episode 511: WebAssembly with Benjamin Eckel
You may have heard about WebAssembly. It’s an open standard that aims to help developers create high performance applications on the web. It’s a portable binary execution format traditionally used on the front end, but there are also other ways to use it. I am completely new to WebAssembly, so today we have a guest to talk about it with us.
Show Notes
Extism repo: https://github.com/extism/extism
WebAssembly MDN Docs: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/WebAssembly
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Episode 510: Burnout with Dr. Katy Cook
Burnout is a common occurrence in the tech industry. And the recent onslaught of layoffs have left many stressed about their job search, or overworked from the increased demands of the smaller teams. I know some of my listeners have experienced burnout. I myself have had a recent experience with burnout that took months to recover from. Dr. Katy Cook joins the show to teach us more about Burnout.
Show Notes
The Psychology of Silicon Valley (2019)
APA Studies on Burnout
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Episode 509: The Future Of Ruby Central with Adarsh Pandit
Recently, Ruby Central named a new executive director, Adarsh Pandit. Ruby Central has been a force in the Ruby community for years, organizing conferences and contributing to the community. The recent changes in governance have led t some exciting things on the horizon. Adarsh joined the show to talk about what's going to happen with Ruby Central in 2024.
Show Notes
Ruby Central Website - https://rubycentral.org/
Ruby Conf Musical Number Video - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8WhbX6dS6x0
RubyConf Recap Survey Results - https://rubycentral.org/p/c9897883-2135-4704-b53a-a4111ca272f3/
Ruby Central Get Involved Page - https://rubycentral.org/leadership/
Ruby Central contact page - contact@rubycentral.org
RubyConferences.org - https://rubyconferences.org
Adarsh's Email - adarsh@rubycentral.org
RailsConf Tickets - http://railsconf.org
Sam Giddin's Stat of the RubyGems Talk - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hea-x7LHO9Y
Announcment of Sam's AWS Security Residency - https://rubycentral.org/news/ruby-central-welcomes-new-software-engineer-in-residence-sponsored-by-aws/
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Episode 508: YJIT with Maxime Chevalier-Boisvert
Over the years, the performance of Ruby has improved quite a bit. One of the big recent performance improvements came from the development of YJIT inside Shopify. YJIT is a just-in-time compiler for Ruby written in Rust. Dr. Maxime Chevalier-Boisvert joined the show to talk about YJIT
Show Notes
YJIT Website
Maxime on X https://twitter.com/Love2Code (❤️→ λ)
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Episode 507: Stephen Margheim on SQLite in Ruby on Rails Applications
If you start a new Rails project today, you’re probably going to pick Postgres for your database. And if you have a ten year old Rails app, you might be using MySQL. But Rails ships with support for SQLite, a lightweight SQL database. Can that lightweight database be used to make production-ready software? Stephen Margheim joins the show to help us answer that question.
Show Notes
Stephen's blog post about SQLite - https://blog.wesleyac.com/posts/consider-sqlite
Stephen's website fractaledmind.github.io
You can find Stephen on Twitter or Mastodon @fractaledmind.
pd_loader - https://pgloader.io/
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Episode 506: Unwinding Flakey Tests with Alan Ridlehoover & Fito von Zastrow
Fito and Alan are frequent RubyConf and RailsConf speakers on topics ranging from software complexity to resolving flaky specs. They joined the how to discuss strategies for dealing with unreliable tests and complex code.
Show Notes
Cisco Meraki:
Careers (https://meraki.com/careers)
Alan Ridlehoover’s LinkedIn (https://linkedin.com/in/aridlehoover)
Fito von Zastrow’s LinkedIn (https://linkedin.com/in/fitovz)
Talks:
The Secret Ingredient: How to Understand & Resolve Just about Any Flaky Test (https://youtu.be/zsGloAjneX0?si=CFR48kl3Ke0sShyh)
A Brewer’s Guide to Filtering Out Complexity & Churn (https://youtu.be/RJRSosxtzbU?si=zkha6RrUoIReuPT3)
Resources:
The Code Gardener (https://the.codegardener.com)
First Try! Software (https://firsttry.software)
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Customer Reviews
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Fantastic Show
Brittany is one of the best podcast hosts. She asks wonderful questions and brings out the best in her guests. Funny, insightful, and enlightening.
Love the in-depth technical convos
I just finished listening to a couple of episodes. I decided to subscribe after consistently listening to the guests who seemed more like “day-to-day” and less celebrity-like rockstar programmers who actually implemented the smaller but still significant solutions they talk about.
I like the technical depth the host asks the questions and give the guests enough time to expand on the details as much as they need without pressuring then to wrap up or give a bite sized response.
I can relate to the guests and been enjoying learning about their different backgrounds and experiences working through certain specific technical challenges. Thanks and keep up the great work!