177: Tricking Computers Into Doing Things
On this episode of the Bike Shed, Chris is joined by Christina Entcheva, developer from thoughtbot’s New York studio to discuss rails performance, user focused development, and headless CMSs.
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Show Notes
On this episode of the Bike Shed, Chris is joined by Christina Entcheva, developer from thoughtbot's New York studio who has been a product manager and designer previously in her career, but has since settled in to her role as a developer.
Chris & Christina share a conversation ranging from their shared love of "boring Rails apps", Christina's recent work with headless CMSs like Contentful & Prismic, and a discussion around Rails performance. Throughout the conversation they touch on theme's of keeping a focus on user needs throughout the work of developing applications.
- Contentful
- Prismic
- Essential Scala book
- Nate Berkopec
- The Complete Guide to Rails Performance
- Mark/Compact GC in MRI - Aaron Patterson
- Benchmark module in Ruby
- Postgres Table Partitioning
- Getting Real book by Basecamp
- It Doesn't Have to Be Crazy at Work
- Upcase is now Free!
- Testing Interaction with 3rd-party APIs on Upcase
- Composition Over Inheritance on Upcase