Sponsors Sentry use the code “devchat” for 2 months free on Sentry small plan Triplebyte offers a $1000 signing bonus Cachefly Panel: Eric Berry Dave Kimura Andrew Mason Joined by Special Guest: Stefan WintermeyerEpisode summaryStefan Wintermeyer, a german consultant, discusses his recent blog post “Rails needs Active Deployment”. He goes on to explain that this isn’t meant for rails deployment “rockstars” or Heroku, this is for normal developers who need an easier way to deploy their rails appl...
Mar 12, 2019•55 min
Sponsors Sentry use the code “devchat” for $100 credit Triplebyte CacheFly Panel Andrew Mason Eric Berry Dave Kimura Charles Max Wood Joined by special guest: Maciej MensfeldEpisode SummaryIn this episode of Ruby Rogues, the panelists talk with Maciej Mensfeld, Senior Software Engineer at Castle Intelligence and the creator of the Karafka framework. Maciej explains to listeners the Karafka and Kafka frameworks and their advantages, the differences between Karafka and gems like DeliveryBoy and Ra...
Mar 05, 2019•1 hr
Sponsors Sentry use code “devchat” for 2 months free on Sentry small plan TripleByte offers a $1000 signing bonus Panel Dave Kimura Eric Berry Charles Wood Joined by special guest: Jesus CastelloEpisode SummaryIn this episode, Jesus Castello, a ruby developer who has been programming since he was 10 years old. He has been a Ruby Developer for 7 years. He teaches Ruby and has a Youtube channel and website. — discusses with the panel his post about Environmental Variables. Jesus teaches what an en...
Feb 27, 2019•45 min
Sponsors Sentry - use the code “devchat” for $100 credit Triplebyte CacheFly Episode Summary In this 400th episode of Ruby Rogues, the panelists - Dave Kimura, Andrew Mason, Eric Berry, Charles Max Wood talk about themselves, their backgrounds, things they are working with, their journey and perspectives on life in general.Eric has been a developer since 1998 and is working on Ruby on Rails since 2008. He talks about his current company – CodeFund, an ethical advertising platform that helps open...
Feb 19, 2019•1 hr 5 min
Sponsors Sentry use the code "devchat" for $100 credit Panel Andrew Mason Eric Berry Dave Kimura Charles Max Wood Nate Hopkins Special Guest: Tung NguyenEpisode SummaryIn this episode of Ruby Rogues, the panelists talk with Tung Nguyen, President and Founder of BoltOps AWS Cloud Infrastructure Consultancy, a Bay Area based DevOps infrastructure consultancy. Tung is also the creator of Ruby on Jets. Jets is a Ruby Serverless Framework, allowing you to to create serverless applications with Ruby. ...
Feb 12, 2019•1 hr 14 min
Get Mani's 10x Productivity Book Summaries Freedom App use the code “MANI” for 50% off life-time Sponsors Sentry use the code "devchat" for $100 credit TripleByte Panel: Eric Berry Charles Max Wood Nate Hopkins Dave Kimura David Richards Brian Hogan Andrew Mason Special Guest: Mani VayaEpisode SummaryIn this episode Mani Vaya — founder of 2000books.com and former programmer — discusses productivity. He speaks on the following subtopics: the importance of planning out one’s day; identifying prior...
Feb 05, 2019•13 min
Sponsors Sentry use the code "devchat" for $100 credit TripleByte Special Guest: Karthik Gaekwad. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/ruby-rogues--6102073/support ....
Jan 30, 2019•45 min
Sponsors Sentry use the code "devchat" for $100 credit TripleByte Panel Dave Kimura Nate Hopkins Charles Max Wood Special Guest - Radoslav Stankov In this episode, the panelists of Ruby Rogues speak with Radoslav Stankov about GraphQL and its implementation in depth. Radoslav is based out of Sofia, Bulgaria and is the head of the engineering team at Product Hunt. He is a full stack developer since 2002, working on JavaScript, Ruby on Rails, Elixir and GraphQL. Show Notes:0:00 – Charles introduce...
Jan 24, 2019•56 min
Sponsors Sentry use the code "devchat" for $100 credit TripleByte CacheFly Panel Dave Kimura Charles Max Wood Special Guest: Nathan Ruehs In this episode of Ruby Rogues, the panelists talk with Nathan Ruehs. Nathan is a programmer residing in the Milwaukee area. He started working for a large corporation right after college and is currently trying to explore newer methods to incorporate Ruby in his day to day work. The panelists and Nathan talk about ways to sneak Ruby into big companies, diffic...
Jan 15, 2019•40 min
Panel: Eric Berry Dave Kimura Nate Hopkins Charles Max Wood Special Guest: Vladimir Dem In this episode of Ruby Rogues, the panel talks with Vladimir Dem who is a Ruby developer and currently lives in Brooklyn, New York. Today, the panelists and guest talk about cables, concurrency, and Ruby. Check it out!Show Topics:0:00 – Advertisement: Sentry.io 1:02 – Chuck: Hello! The panel today is Eric, Dave, Nate, and myself! Our guest is Vlad!1:30 – Guest: My name is Vladimir, but people call me Vlad. I...
Dec 25, 2018•1 hr 2 min
Panel: - Eric Berry - Dave Kimura - David Richards - Charles Max Wood In this episode of Ruby Rogues, the panelists talk amongst themselves on today’s topic, which is “speculation on frameworks.” They consider where the tech community currently is right now, and where it’s heading towards the future. They bring-up topics such as: Rails, Ruby, Angular, Agile, and much more. Check it out!Show Topics:0:00 – Advertisement: https://sentry.io/welcome/ 1:47 – Chuck: Check out the DevRev2:08 – Panel: A ...
Dec 18, 2018•53 min
Panel: Eric Berry Charles Max Wood Nate Hopkins Special Guest: Paul Smith and Andrew MasonIn this episode of Ruby Rogues, the panelists talk with Paul Smith and Andrew Mason! They discuss the platforms Lucky and Crystal. Other topics include: Ruby, Phoenix, Laravel Mix, Thoughtbot, Webpack, compilers, and much more! Check it out!Show Topics:0:00 – Advertisement: Sentry.io 1:02 – Chuck: Welcome!! Eric Berry, Nate Hopkins, and myself are the panel - and our special guests are Paul Smith and Andrew...
Dec 11, 2018•1 hr 2 min
Panel: Dave Kimura Charles Max Wood Nate Hopkins Special Guest: Josh Justice In this episode of Ruby Rogues, the panelists talk with Josh Justice who is a developer, writer, and speaker. Josh streams JavaScript and web development on Friday’s at 2:00 PM (ET) here! The panelists and the guest talk about Josh’s background and frontend testing in Ruby. Check it out!Show Topics:0:00 – Advertisement: Sentry.io 1:04 – Chuck: Hi! Dave, Nate, and myself are on the panel and our special guest is Josh Jus...
Dec 04, 2018•1 hr 7 min
Panel: - Dave Kimura - Eric Berry - Charles Max Wood - Nate Hopkins Special Guest: http://pecavalheiro.com In this episode of Ruby Rogues, the panelists talk with http://pecavalheiro.com who is from Brazil, but currently resides in Hamburg, Germany where he works at Xing. He is a software engineer, an actor, and has been working with the web since 2010. He has worked mostly with Ruby and PHP languages, and since 2015 has worked full-time with Ruby on Rails. The panelists and Pedro talk about his...
Nov 27, 2018•54 min
Panel: David Kimura Eric Berry In this episode of Ruby Rogues, the panelists talk amongst themselves about their favorite software, equipment, and apps. Both Eric and David thoroughly share their preferred picks within these categories, and they explain how and why they use the specified item. Check out today’s episode to hear more!Show Topics:0:00 – Advertisement: Sentry.io 1:03 – David: Welcome! Today, Chuck is not feeling well. I am David and today we have Eric Berry on our panel today. It is...
Nov 20, 2018•55 min
Panel: Dave Kimura Charles (Chuck) Max Wood Nate Hopkins Special Guest: Dan Mayer In this episode of Ruby Rogues, the panel talks with Bozhidar Batsov who is the VP of Engineering at Toptal, and an Emacs fanatic. The panel and the guest talk about RubCop , Emacs , and Komodo , among other topics! Check out today’s episode for more details.Show Topics:0:00 – Sentry.IO – Advertisement! 1:07 – Chuck lists the panelists and the special guest. 1:37 – Chuck: Why are you famous?1:41 – Guest gives his b...
Nov 13, 2018•1 hr 9 min
Panel: - Dave Kimura - Charles Max Wood - David Richards Special Guest: https://www.mayerdan.com In this episode of Ruby Rogues, the panel talks with https://twitter.com/danmayer?lang=en who believes that small distributed software teams can make a large impact. Dan loves Ruby, distributed systems, OSS, and making development easier. The panel and Dan talk about performance and benchmarking. Check out today’s episode to learn more!Show Topics:0:00 – https://sentry.io/welcome/ 1:07 – Chuck: Our p...
Nov 06, 2018•49 min
Panel: - Dave Kimura - Charles Max Wood - David Richards Special Guest: https://twitter.com/gsamokovarov?lang=en In this episode of Ruby Rogues, the panel talks with https://twitter.com/gsamokovarov?lang=en who is a software developer and loves using Ruby. Genadi also likes dance music. You can check out his code at https://github.com/gsamokovarov and his mixes on https://soundcloud.com/gsamokovarov Finally, he blogs about technology that he cares about. Check-out his post about a curious Proc.n...
Oct 30, 2018•42 min
Panel: Dave Kimura Eric Berry Nathan Hopkins David Richards Special Guest: Jason SwettIn this episode of Ruby Rogues, the panel talks with Jason Swett who is a host of the podcast show, Ruby Testing! Jason also teaches Rails testing at CodeWithJason.com . He currently resides in the Michigan area and works for Ben Franklin Labs. Check-out today’s episode where the panelists and the guest discuss testing topics.Show Topics:0:00 – Sentry.IO – Advertisement! Check out the code: DEVCHAT @ Sentry.io....
Oct 23, 2018•1 hr 2 min
Panel: - https://www.linkedin.com/in/kobaltz - Eric Berry Special Guest: Sam AaronIn this episode of Ruby Rogues, the panel talks with Sam Aaron who is the creator of https://github.com/samaaron/sonic-pi/graphs/contributors , which is the main topic that he and the panel talk about today. Sam is a computer scientist who has his Ph.D., and uses the Ruby language. He is also a programmer, educator, live coding musician, and father.Show Topics:1:25 – Panelist: Tell us what you are doing?1:27 – Sam:...
Oct 16, 2018•54 min
Panel: - https://twitter.com/cmaxw?lang=en - https://www.linkedin.com/in/kobaltz - David Richards Special Guests: Julia EvansIn this episode of Ruby Rogues, the panel talks with Julia Evans who is a software engineer at Stripe and lives in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. The panel talks with Julia about her tool Ruby Spy among other topics. Check it out!Show Topics:1:34 – Julia gives her background.1:52 – Chuck: You’ve been on the show before. Listeners, go check it out!2:30 – What is Ruby Spy?2:09 – ...
Oct 09, 2018•50 min
Panel: Charles Max Wood Dave Kimura Eric Berry In this episode of Ruby Rogues, the panel talks amongst themselves the topic: “When to Build, or When to Buy.” They discuss how time is limited, and whether it is worth their time to build their own app/software or to just purchase. They discuss the pros and cons of each. Check-out today’s episode for more details!Show Topics:1:40 – Chuck: Anything that prompted choosing this topic?2:13 – Dave: I am not a huge stickler of keeping tracks of things. W...
Oct 02, 2018•1 hr 4 min
Panel: Charles Max Wood Dave Kimura Eric Berry Special Guests: Saverio Miroddi In this episode of Ruby Rogues, the panel talks to Saverio Miroddi who is an engineer among other things. Saverio has written articles, and a link to two of his articles is found below. The panel and Saverio talk about Ruby, Ruby Motion, Shoes, Hackety Hack, and much more! Check out the episode!Show Topics:2:05 – Chuck asks a question.2:42 – Chuck: What do you recommend for the listeners?2:49 – Saverio: At the time I ...
Sep 25, 2018•39 min
Panel: - Charles Max Wood - Dave Kimura - Eric Berry Special Guests: Rahul MahaleIn this episode of Ruby Rogues, the panel talks to Rahul Mahale. Rahul is a Senior DevOps Engineer at BigBinary in India. He has also worked with SecureDB Inc., Tiny Owl, Winjit Technologies among others. In addition, he attended the University of Pune. The panel and the guest talk about https://kubernetes.io.Show Topics:1:25 – https://www.teepublic.com/t-shirt/3074500-ruby-rogues?store_id=172938 1:49 – Chuck: Why a...
Sep 18, 2018•1 hr 1 min
Panel: - Charles Max Wood - Dave Kimura - Eric Berry Special Guests: https://jeffkreeftmeijer.com In this episode of Ruby Rogues, the panel talks to https://jeffkreeftmeijer.com who is a Ruby and Elixir developer at https://appsignal.com . Jeff writes for the https://appsignal.com newsletter and has a blog. Check out today’s episode where the panel talks about AppSignal, Russian doll caching, Drifting Ruby, JavaScript Sprinkles, cache warming, N+1 plus other topics.Show Topics:2:47 – Code Fund &...
Sep 11, 2018•54 min
Panel: Charles Max Wood David Richards Dave Kimura Eric Berry Special Guests: John HawthornIn this episode of Ruby Rogues, the panel talks to John Hawthorn about MJIT. John has been a Ruby programmer for about 9 years and is based in Victoria, B.C. They talk about what MJIT is, the effects you can see from using the MJIT compiler, and why the JIT doesn’t always work with other languages. They also touch on how you can use the JIT in your own code, how he makes his performance better, and more!Sh...
Sep 04, 2018•44 min
Panel: Dave Kimura Eric Berry Special Guests: Luke FranclIn this episode of Ruby Rogues, the panel talks to Luke Francl about his article “ Upgrading Rails applications incrementally ”. Luke works at GitHub on search and has been there since October 2017. Before working at GitHub , he worked at a search startup that was working with Rails and Elasticsearch . They talk about things that people take for granted with search, the impending takeover of GitHub from Microsoft, and what open source look...
Aug 28, 2018•53 min
Panel: Charles Max Wood Eric Berry David Richards Special Guests: Nate BerkopecIn this episode of Ruby Rogues, the panel talks to Nate Berkopec about Ruby Performance. Nate is a freelance Ruby performance consultant and he writes and works on Ruby application performance, specifically Rails applications, which he has been doing for the past 3 or 4 years. They talk about his past experience, what led him to Ruby performance, and why he loves Turbolinks . They also touch on the two benefits to per...
Aug 21, 2018•1 hr 7 min
Panel: Eric Berry Special Guests: Sihui HuangIn this episode of Ruby Rogues, the panel talks to Sihui Huang about his article "How to Contribute to Ruby." Sihui is currently a back-end engineer at Gusto , which is a startup that works with payroll, benefits, and HR for companies. They talk about her experience in the programming world, why she chose to work with Ruby , and they touch on her article and why she decided to write it. They also touch on the three focuses for Ruby 3, if she thinks Ru...
Aug 14, 2018•58 min
Panel: Charles Max Wood David Richards Eric Berry Dave Kimura Special Guests: Prathamesh SonpatkiIn this episode of Ruby Rogues, the panel talks to Prathamesh Sonpatki about Rails 5. Prathamesh works for BigBinary , where they publish a lot of blog posts on things like Ruby , speaks at conferences and is the organizer of RubyConf India . They talk about the biggest changes that have occurred from the new Rails 5 release, CISM tests, and the struggle that testing brings. They also touch on differ...
Aug 07, 2018•51 min
