Ruby Rogues

02:34 - Mike Gehard Introduction

• Twitter 
• GitHub
• Pivotal

03:23 - Monoliths 04:18 - Microservices 09:47 - Migrating a Monolith to Microservices Via an Evolutionary Path

• Organization
• The Application Continuum: Evolving toward distributed systems

15:21 - The Steps Along the Continuum

• Where do engines fit in?
• Service Boundary Definitions

19:25 - Bounded Context

• The Ruby Rogues Episode #228: The Lotus Framework with Luca Guidi 

21:52 - Evolution

• Conway’s Law
• Unbuilt Gems

30:40 - Dependency on the Database35:15 - Testing

• pact 
• Jepsen Testing
• Postman
• Mashery I/O Docs 

51:16 - Deployment

• Pivotal Cloud Foundry

52:47 - Security

• UAA

55:15 - Advice for those getting started

• SOA (Service-oriented Architecture)
• Component-Based Rails Applications Resources

01:04:09 - Fault TolerancePicks LOWA Boots (Avdi)
Pearl’s Peril (David)
He Never Died (David)
httplog (Coraline)
Toxic Workers by Michael Housman and Dylan Minor (Coraline)
The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl Vol. 1 by Ryan North (Jessica)
Hamilton (Original Broadway Cast Recording) (Jessica)
MyFitnessPal (Chuck)
Run 10k (Chuck)
Pebble Time Steel (Chuck)
Aftershokz Bluez 2 (Chuck)
FLUIDSTANCE (Mike)
The Elm Programming Language (Mike)
Kotlin (Mike)Special Guest: Mike Gehard.

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Check out Ruby Remote Conf: coming to you live in March! Buy a ticket or submit a CFP! 02:17 - Phil Spitler Introduction

• Twitter 
• GitHub 
• Blog

03:20 - Panel opinions: What makes a good developer?07:26 - “Successful” vs “Great” Developers

• Growth Mindset

12:45 - Mentors: What to they epitomize?

• Maintainability

14:37 - How do newbies find/identify mentors?17:45 - When Becoming Great Starts to Matter27:51 - How People “Arrive”; Necessary Skillsets

• Code Archaeology

30:51 - Bloc.io 36:44 - As a mentor, where do you draw the line?

• Ruby Rogues Episode #240: What Makes a Good Manager with Marcus Blankenship 

40:57 - As an educator: How important is it to do hands-on work of your own?

• The Freelancers’ Show Episode #184: Goals and Productivity (unreleased at time of publication)

Picks Rat-a-Tat Cat (Jessica)
Sorry Not Sorry IPA (Jessica)
Amazon Fire Kids Edition (Avdi)
The Now Habit: A Strategic Program for Overcoming Procrastination and Enjoying Guilt-Free by Neil Fiore (Avdi)
Intercom Central® 246 - Four Channels HOME Power-line Intercom System (Chuck)
Fathead (Chuck)
spitfire (Phil)
Bloc's Software Engineering Track (SET Program) (Phil)
Kyle Cease (Phil)
Phil’s coworker’s Ariel's man crush on Avdi (Phil)
Carol Dweck: The Power of Believing That You Can Improve (Phil)
Wile Kratts (Children's Science Show) (Phil)
MindSet by Carol Dweck (Chuck)Special Guest: Phil Spitler.

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02:05 - Marcus Blankenship Introduction

• Twitter 
• Blog

02:52 - Pain and Difficulties of Moving From Programming to Management

• Identity
• Credibility

10:50 - Image and Identity (Cont’d)

• Expectations
• Role Models

19:16 - Management; Making the Move to Management

• Aikido
• “Everybody deserves a good manager.”

23:37 - How do you know if you have a bad manager?27:13 - Feedback; Tone of Communication33:54 - What should you do when you get promoted to a management position?

• Nix Production Code Tasks
  • Meet with Your People (Give Feedback)    
  • One-on-one Meetings with Team Members
  • Zero Surprises Evaluation Policy
  • Evaluation Forms
  • Goals and Incentives
  • Reviews for Self-Reflection
• Get Your Own Feedback

48:25 - How do you know you are doing a good job?

• Skip-Level Reviews
• Growth of your team and members
• Signs of Loyalty

51:06 - What if you don’t want to move into a management role?Picks The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers by Ben Horowitz (Jessica)
The Narrow Road to the Deep North by Richard Flanagan (Jessica)
Star Wars: The Force Awakens (Chuck)
JS Remote Conf (Chuck)
Ruby Remote Conf (Chuck)
Freelance Remote Conf (Chuck)
The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles by Steven Pressfield (Marcus)
Predicting the Unpredictable: Pragmatic Approaches to Estimating Project Schedule or Cost by Johanna Rothman (Marcus)Special Guest: Marcus Blankenship.

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This episode is from Peter Cooper’s talk at Ruby Remote Conf 2015. You can watch the full, unedited presentation, Swiss Army Rubyknife, on YouTube at your convenience.

• Check out All Remote Confs for next year’s remote conference lineup!
• Ruby Remote Conf will run from March 23rd-25th 2016. Buy a ticket or submit a CFP!
• JS Remote Conf is running from January 14th-16th 2016. Check out the speaker lineup!
• Freelance Remote Conf will run from February 24th-26th. We’ve already got a great list of confirmed speakers. Stay tuned for more details!

We, the Ruby Rogues panelists (And, Mandy!), wish you a very happy holiday season.Special Guest: Peter Cooper.

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Check out JS Remote Conf and submit a Ruby Remote Conf CFP! 02:26 - Refactoring (Definition) and Where People Fail03:55 - Tests and Refactoring

• How do you decide when your codebase is untestable?

10:59 - Managing Scope11:42 - Why We Refactor; The Value of Refactoring

• Coraline's Data-Driven Refactoring Talk

17:13 - Refactoring Tools 20:40 - When Refactoring Gets Put Off; Establishing a Code Culture26:23 - Refactoring Strategies

• Extract Method
• Extract Class
• Introduce Explaining Variable

37:38 - Performance Tradeoffs41:42 - Generative Testing

• approvals 

50:33 - Measurement53:08 - Examples and Resources

• Martin Fowler: Catalog of Refactorings 
• Refactoring: Ruby Edition by Jay Fields 
• Katrina Owen: Therapeutic Refactoring @ Cascadia Ruby Conf 2012
• Sam Livingston-Gray: Fluent Refactoring @ LoneStarRuby 2013

Picks Longmire (Avdi)
Clash of Clans (Chuck)
Star Wars Commander (Chuck)
Cleaning your office (Chuck)
Hsing-Hui Hsu: Time flies like an arrow; Fruit flies like a banana: Parsers for Great Good @ RubyConf 2015 (Coraline)
Betsy Haibel: s/regex/DSLs/: What Regex Teaches Us About DSL Design @ RubyConf 2015 (Coraline)
Velocity 2016 Call for speakers (Saron)
RailsConf 2016 (Saron)

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Check out JS Remote Conf and All Remote Confs! 02:32 - Brad Urani Introduction

• Twitter 
• GitHub 
• Blog
• Procore

04:01 - Immutable/Persistent Data Structures; Advantages

• Changing the Unchangeable: The Hows and Whys of Immutable Data Structures @ RubyConf 2015 
• hamster

07:30 - Tools for Debugging08:23 - Why do Rubyists care about things like Elm?09:39 - Persistent Data Structure Use Cases; Functional Programming12:07 - Testability13:51 - Where does “functional play a role in a typical CRUD app? Active Record, 

• The Single Responsibility Principle (SRP)
• Callbacks
• Object-oriented Programming (OOP)
  • “Nouns are objects; verbs are methods” - Corey Haines

22:49 - Coworker Receptiveness of Ruby + JavaScript Style of Programming

• Codebase Inconsistency?
• “Merit”

26:41 - Service-oriented Architecture (SOA) vs Monolithic Applications

• Remote Procedure Calls (RPC)
• Representational State Transfer (REST)

30:21 - Monoliths as a Necessary Stage in the Development of a Mature Application

• Elixir
  • The Phoenix Framework
  • ecto

33:23 - The Repository Pattern; Terminology & Naming

• Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture by Martin Fowler

37:40 - Structured Query Language (SQL)

• Avdi Grimm: The Soul of Software @ RubyConf Portugal '15
• The Sapir Whorf Hypothesis'

Picks Dan Carlin's Hardcore History (Coraline)
Stuff You Missed in History Class (Coraline)
Buffer (Avdi)
New Belgium Brewing Accumulation White IPA (Avdi)
Saramonic SmartMixer Professional Recording Stereo Microphone Rig (Chuck)
LaunchCode (Brad)
Turing's Cathedral: The Origins of the Digital Universe by George Dyson (Coraline)
VAT19 (Brad)Special Guest: Brad Urani.

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02:10 - Brian Underwood Introduction

• Twitter 
• GitHub 
• Blog
• Neo Technology

02:55 - Neo4j

• Neo4j [GitHub]

04:31 - Graph Databases vs Traditional Databases06:02 - Relations Have Directions06:58 - Modeling a Domain as a Graph; How it Works

• cypher

13:25 - Built-in Query Processor15:04 - Neo4j.rb => ORM; OGM

• Mongoid Influence

18:06 - Declarative Schema 21:09 - The Ruby Client vs The Java Client25:48 - Use Cases35:53 - Who is using Neo4j?

• Ashley Sun Lending Club: Managing Microservices with Neo4j @ GraphConnect SF 2015 

38:42 - Challenges as an Open Source Maintainer39:44 - Funding Neo4j41:00 - Working Abroad42:16 - Getting Started with Neo4j

• Getting Started with Neo4j and Ruby
• Neo4j Screencasts
• Neo4j.com/developer   
• Neo4j [GitHub]

Picks Elle Luna: The Crossroads of Should and Must (Jessica)
Lynda Tutorials (Avdi)
How to Win Friends & Influence People by Dale Carnegie (Avdi)
Marked 2 (Coraline)
Fund Club (Coraline)
RubyTapas #334: Rspec Compound Matchers (Brian)
Pyrosomes (Brian)
Americapox: The Missing Plague (Brian)Special Guest: Brian Underwood .

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Check out JS Remote Conf! 02:07 - Rob Miller Introduction

• Twitter 
• GitHub 
• Blog
• Big Fish Marketing
• Text Processing with Ruby: Extracting Value from the Data That Surrounds You with Rob Miller 

03:11 - Why does text processing matter?07:32 - One-off Data Processing, Core Competency

• The Perl Programming Language

10:36 - Processing Less-structured, Unstructured Data12:45 - The Command Line 

• Ruby's -e, -n and -p switches
• Antipatterns
• Class: IO 

29:15 - Abstractions and Refactoring35:12 - Munging: Tools and Practices

• transproc 

40:57 - Text Processing for Textual Visual Things

• Conway's Game of Life

42:57 - Parallelization 45:45 - Fanning Data

• join

Picks Text Processing with Ruby: Extracting Value from the Data That Surrounds You with Rob Miller (Avdi)
Data Is Plural by Jeremy Singer-Vine (Avdi)
RubyConf 2015 Videos (Avdi)
Papers We Love (Jessica)
transproc (David)
Does your data fit in RAM? (David)
advisor (David)
Swarm Simulator (Chuck)
15 Minute Podcast Listener chat with Charles Wood (Chuck)
Toastmasters (Chuck)
All Remote Conferences (Chuck)
transproc (Rob)
Sequel: The Database Toolkit for Ruby (Rob)
Priceless: The Myth of Fair Value (and How to Take Advantage of It) by William Poundstone (Rob)Special Guest: Rob Miller.

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02:28 - Jerod Santo Introduction

• Twitter
• GitHub 
• Blog
• Object Lateral, Inc. 

02:44 - Adam Stacoviak Introduction

• Twitter 
• GitHub 
• Blog

02:55 - The Changelog and Beyond Code (Background)

• 5by5 
• Wynn Netherland
• The Changelog #172: GitUp, Git UX, and More with Pierre-Olivier Latour
• The Changelog #145: 10+ Years of Rails with DHH
• The Changelog #139: The Rise of io.js with Mikeal Rogers 
• The Changelog #155: The Future of Node.js with Scott Hammond
• JavaScript Jabber #147: io.js with Isaac Schlueter and Mikeal Rogers  

13:50 - The Corporatization of Open Source16:00 - Sharing Stories of Fascinating People and Choosing Conferences

• Gophercon

21:21 - Differences Between Communities

• Ron Evans
  • Ruby Rogues Episode #141: Teaching Kids with Ron Evans

24:54 - Where are The Changelog and Beyond Code’s future plans?

• OSCON
• Strange Loop  
• Questions:
  • Who is your programming hero?
  • If you had to relearn how to code all over again, what would you tell yourself?
  • What’s the most exciting thing in software right now?

31:57 - Interview Wishlist

• 20 Years of Ruby with Matz
• 20 Years of JavaScript with Brendan Eich
• Bill O’Reilly
• Linus Torvalds
• 10 Years of Git with Junio Hamano
• Apple: ResearchKit
• Sara Chipps

35:43 - Origin Stories

• Mitchell Hashimoto
  • The Changelog #180: Otto, Vagrant, and Automation with Mitchell Hashimoto 
• LEGO League

Picks Personality Insights (Coraline)
The Art of Empathy: A Complete Guide to Life's Most Essential Skill by Karla McLaren (Coraline)
FamilySearch (Chuck)
Snow (Chuck)
DISTRICT Roasters (Adam)
The Balvenie (Adam)
Lismore Scotch (Adam)
The Elixir Fountain (Jerod)
Robot or Not? (Jerod)
Song Exploder (Jerod)Special Guests: Adam Stacoviak and Jerod Santo.

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02:36 - Responsibility and Communication

• Slack
• “Ask Anything”

12:10 - Onboarding Experience for Remote Employees15:55 - Measuring New Employee Metrics 17:41 - Onboarding Onto a Team vs Onboarding Onto a Project20:51 - What it Means to be a Senior Developer29:20 - First Impressions and Team Member Categories33:26 - How do you decide what you spend time learning?40:57 - Code Reading

• The Web Platform Podcast 

Picks Private Internet Access (Avdi)
Darkest Dungeon  (Avdi)
imprint (Coraline)
The surprising truth about which personality traits do and don't correlate with computer programming skills (Coraline)
TALON Bluetooth Wireless Headphones (Jessica)
The Penderwicks: A Summer Tale of Four Sisters, Two Rabbits, and a Very Interesting Boy by Jeanne Birdsall (Jessica)
Reading to your kids (Chuck)
LinkedIn (Chuck)
RubyTapas (Chuck)
Elixir Sips (Chuck)
Avdi's Newsletter (Avdi)

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