Mayra Navarro is an organizer of WNB.rb and Ruby Perú.Mayra shares how the Ruby community helped her get to RubyConf, going from project manager to developer, and the different ways people learn and communicate.This is the final interview rec

Mike Perham on Keeping it solo (RubyConf 2023)

Nov 21st, 2023 51m 26s

Mike Perham is the creator of Sidekiq, a background job processor for Ruby. He's also the creator of Faktory a similar product for multiple language environments.We talk about the RubyConf keynote and Ruby's limitations, supporting products as

Sara Jackson on Teaching in Kanazawa (RubyConf 2023)

Nov 18th, 2023 44m 17s

Sara is a team lead at thoughtbot.She talks about her experience as a professor at Kanazawa Technical College, giant LAN parties in Rochester, transitioning from Java to Ruby, shining a light on maintainers, and her closing thoughts on RubyCon

David Copeland on Medium Sized Decisions (RubyConf 2023)

Nov 17th, 2023 48m 33s

David was the chief software architect and director of engineering at Stitch Fix. He's also the author of a number of books including Sustainable Web Development with Ruby on Rails and most recently Ruby on Rails Background Jobs with Sidekiq.H

ChaelCodes on The Joy of Programming Games and Streaming (RubyConf 2023)

Nov 15th, 2023 43m 53s

Episode NotesRachael Wright-Munn (ChaelCodes) talks about her love of programming games (games with programming elements in them, not how to make games!), starting her streaming career with regex crosswords, and how streaming games and open so

Daniel Zingaro and Leo Porter on learning to program with LLMs

Sep 20th, 2023 1h

Dr. Daniel Zingaro and Dr. Leo Porter are co-authors of the book Learn AI-Assisted Python Programming.Leo will teach an introductory computer science course this quarter at UCSD using this book. We discuss how tools like GitHub Copilot let peo

Anita Zhang and Alvaro Levia on systemd at Meta

Jun 14th, 2023 1h 3m

systemd is a service manager for Linux. It is the first process that runs on many Linux distributions and manages all other user processes. It includes utilities for logging, process isolation, process dependencies, socket activation, and many

David Cramer on Application Monitoring with Sentry

Jun 14th, 2023 1h 16m

Sentry is an application monitoring tool that surfaces errors and performance problems. It minimizes the need to manually look at logs or dashboards by identifying common problems across applications and frameworks.David Cramer is the co-found

Luca Casonato on Deno

Mar 2nd, 2023 1h 20m

Luca Casonato is the tech lead for Deno Deploy and a TC39 delegate.Deno is a JavaScript runtime from the original creator of NodeJS, Ryan Dahl.Topics covered:What's a JavaScript runtimeHow V8 is usedWhy Deno was createdThe W3C WinterCG f

Megan Cutrofello on Leaguepedia

Jan 10th, 2023 1h 37m

Leaguepedia is a MediaWiki instance that covers tournaments, teams, and players in the League of Legends esports community. It's relied on by fans, analysts, and broadcasters from around the world.Megan "River" Cutrofello joined Leaguepedia in

Victor Adossi on Yak Shaving

Jan 2nd, 2023 1h 50m

Victor is a software consultant in Tokyo who describes himself as a yak shaver. He writes on his blog at vadosware and curates Awesome F/OSS, a mailing list of open source products. He's also a contributor to the Open Core Ventures blog.Before

Xe Iaso on Tailscale

Oct 1st, 2022 54m 10s

Xe Iaso is the Archmage of Infrastructure at Tailscale and previously worked at Heroku.This episode originally aired on Software Engineering Radio but includes some additional discussion about their blog near the end of the episode.Topics cover

Jonathan Shariat on Tragic Design

Sep 9th, 2022 55m 19s

Jonathan Shariat is the coauthor of the book Tragic Design and co-host of the Design Review Podcast. He's currently a Sr. Interaction Designer & Accessibility Program Lead at Google.This episode originally aired on Software Engineering Radio.

Randy Shoup on Evolving Architecture at eBay

Aug 17th, 2022 57m 52s

This episode originally aired on Software Engineering Radio.Randy Shoup is the VP of Engineering and Chief Architect at eBay. He was previously the VP of Engineering at WeWork and Stitch Fix, a Director of Engineering at Google Cloud where he w

Ant Wilson on Supabase

May 11th, 2022 59m 8s

This episode originally aired on Software Engineering Radio.A few topics coveredBuilding on top of open sourceForking their GoTrue dependencyRelying on Postgres features like row level securityAdding realtime support based on Postgres's write a

Testing with Jason Swett

Apr 4th, 2022 1h 9m

Jason Swett is the author of the Complete Guide to Rails Testing. We covered Jason's experience with testing while building relatively small Ruby on Rails applications. Our conversation applies to just about any language or framework so don't w

Taking Notes on Serverless

Nov 10th, 2021 49m 23s

Swizec is the author of the Serverless Handbook and a software engineer at Tia.SwizecSwizec's personal siteServerless HandbookAWSLambdaAPI GatewayOperating Lambda (The cold start problem)Provisioned ConcurrencyDynamoDBRelational Database Servic

Robotic Process Automation with Alexander Pugh

Oct 28th, 2021 1h 7m

Alexander Pugh is a software engineer at Albertsons. He has worked in Robotic Process Automation and the cognitive services industry for over five years.This episode originally aired on Software Engineering Radio.Related LinksAlexander Pugh's p

Deployment from Scratch with Josef Strzibny

Sep 16th, 2021 1h 9m

Josef Strzibny is the author of Deployment from Scratch and a current Fedora contributor. He previously worked on the Developer Experience team at Red Hat.This episode originally aired on Software Engineering Radio.Links:Deployment from Scratch

Quality Assurance Testing

May 29th, 2021 58m 9s

Michael Ashburne and Maxwell Huffman are QA Managers at Aspiritech. This episode originally aired on Software Engineering Radio.Related Links:AspiritechSection 508 Test for AccessibilityANDI Accessibility Testing ToolWindows Hardware Compati

Scott Hanselman on What's .NET?

Mar 23rd, 2021 54m 21s

Scott is the Community Program Manager for the .NET team at Microsoft and the host of the Hanselminutes podcast. This episode originally aired on Software Engineering Radio.Personal Links and Projects:@shanselmanHanselminutesBlogYouTube Cha

Distributed Systems and Careers with Shubheksha Jalan

Feb 25th, 2021 57m 34s

Shubheksha is a Software Engineer at Apple. She previously worked at Monzo and Microsoft.Personal Links and Projects:@scribblingonLessons learnt in year three as a software engineerPersonal SiteSystems RecipesComputers IllustratedOther intervie

React Authentication with Ryan Chenkie

Dec 17th, 2020 1h 9m

Ryan is the author of Advanced React Security Patterns and Securing Angular Applications. He picked up his authentication expertise working at Auth0. Currently, he's a GraphQL developer advocate at Prisma. Related Links:@ryanchenkieReact Secu

iOS Development with Timirah James

Dec 2nd, 2020 50m 16s

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Object Relational Mappers with Julie Lerman

Nov 18th, 2020 1h 1m

Related Links:@julielermanThe Data Farm (Julie's blog)Entity FrameworkDapperAutomapperPluralsight CoursesThis episode was originally posted on Software Engineering Radio.TranscriptYou can help edit this transcript on GitHub.Jeremy: [00:00:00] T