Code with Jason

In this episode I talk with Adam Hawkins about determining what tools you need for a project. Where should you host? Should you use Docker? Kubernetes? Ansible? We touch on some general DevOps principles along the way.

Links:

• Small Batches Podcast

In this episode I put Noah Gibbs on the spot and ask him how he'd build a certain doctor scheduling feature that I had to build for a real production application.

Links:

• Codefol.io
• Noah Gibbs on Twitter

In this episode I talk with Dave Ceddia, author of Pure React. Dave and I talk about some of the fundamental concepts of React, common libraries used with React, and how persistence and HTTP communication typically work in React apps.

Links:

• Pure React
• Dave's Blog
• Dave Ceddia on Twitter

In this episode I talk with Axel Kee about Ansible. Axel hosts his Rails application on AWS using Ansible as an infrastructure management tool, and so do I, so Axel and I compared notes on our respective setups. We also raised a recurring topic on the podcast: goats.

Links:

• RubyYagi.com
• Axel Kee on Twitter

In this episode I talk with Tom Rossi, co-founder of Buzzsprout, about his entrepreneurial story. We talk about Tom's agency, Higher Pixels, and the products that grew out of that agency, including the podcasting platform Buzzsprout and the healthcare-related product StreamCare.

Links:

• Tom Rossi on Twitter
• higherpixels.com

In this How I'd Build It episode I talk with Tyler Williams about an interesting challenge in an online poker program. Tyler and I discuss what would need to happen in order to ensure that a player only gets a specific amount of time on his or her turn without the player being able to cheat the system. We talk not only about the technical implementation but also the costs of preventing cheating relative to the likelihood that someone would have the willingness and ability to cheat.

• Tyler Williams on Twitter
• Ogden Studios
• Intro to RSpec Syntax (use discount code RWJ2020 to get 30% of the price listed on the site)

In this episode, the first "How I'd Build It" episode, my guest Trae Robrock and I discuss a listener question about interacting with the Active Campaign API. Trae and I touch on testing, VCR, service objects, Interactors, and our general approaches for dealing with third-party APIs.

Links:

• Trae Robrock on Twitter
• trobrock.com
• http://codewithjason.com/how

In this episode I talk with Robby Russell, CEO of Planet Argon, about improving legacy codebases. Robby and I discuss the "we'll fix it later" fallacy, whether to sacrifice quality for speed, the value of having a test suite, and Robby's and Jason's bands.

• Robby Russell on Twitter
• Planet Argon
• Maintainable Podcast
• Maintainable Rails Newsletter
• Oh My ZSH
• The Mighty Missoula

In this episode I talk with Mark Hutter, Lead Engineer at Landing, about database views. Mark and are discuss what views are, in what scenarios you'd use them, how we handle database modeling in general, and other topics.

Links:

• Mark Hutter on Twitter
• markhutter.com

In this episode I talk with Erin Dees, Principal Engineer at Stitch Fix, about Site Reliability Engineering. Topics discussed include being on-call, incident response, SLAs and SLOs, incident severity levels, recovering from incidents, and more.

• erindees.me
• Effective Testing with RSpec 3
• Google Site Reliability Engineering book
• The Phoenix Project
• Burnout