Maple Ong is a health researcher turned software developer. She currently works on the Modular Monolith team at Shopify. Maple helped develop and open source Packwerk, a Ruby gem to enforce modularity in Rails applications.

Links for this episode:

• Shopify/packwerk: Good things come in small packages - GitHub
  
• fxn/zeitwerk: Efficient and thread-safe code loader for Ruby - GitHub
  
• Maple Ong - Software Developer - Shopify | LinkedIn
  
• mpj (@OngMaple) | Twitter
  
• Episode Introduction and Outro by Michael Springer
  
• Episode Music: "Funkorama" by Kevin MacLeod
  

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Former host of the podcast, Kyle Daigle is a Senior Director of Strategic Programs at GitHub working on cross company projects to help GitHubbers and the developer community accomplish the best work of their life with GitHub. He and Brittany catchup and discuss the incredible Arctic Code Vault.

Links for this episode:

• Dependabot
  
• Semmle - Code Analysis Platform for Securing Software
  
• GitHub Archive Program - Arctic Code Vault
  
• Software Heritage
  
• Wayback Machine - Internet Archive
  
• Github Universe 2020
  
• Rails 6.1 RC1: Horizontal Sharding, Multi-DB Improvements and more!
  
• Kyle Daigle (@kdaigle) · Twitter
  
• Episode Introduction and Outro by Michael Springer
  
• Episode Music: "Funkorama" by Kevin MacLeod
  

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Aaron Kahn is a Certified Financial Planner at Wealth Management Strategies, Inc., a fully-independent Pittsburgh-based registered investment advisor. He joined Brittany to answer burning, impactful financial questions especially for software developers.

Links for this episode:

• What Is a 529 Plan? - Saving for College
  
• Wealth Management Strategies, Inc.
  
• Aaron Kahn - Wealth Management Strategies, Inc. - LinkedIn
  
• Email Brittany if you want more financial content
  
• Episode Introduction and Outro by Michael Springer
  
• Episode Music: "Funkorama" by Kevin MacLeod
  

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Brittany guested on the Maintainable Podcast. Robby and her discuss the mistakes that developers make when discussing technical debt with stakeholders and why it is important to write automated tests against a live/production API.

Links for this episode:

• Maintainable Podcast
  
• Planet Argon: Design & Development with Ruby on Rails
  
• Episode Music: "Funkorama" by Kevin MacLeod
  
• Episode Introduction and Outro by Michael Springer
  

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Jason Taylor is currently a Principal Software Engineer at TextUs. He has been a software engineer for 15 years but it is his first ever podcast appearance! He and Brittany dig into what being a principal means (key: confidence) and discuss some spooky Rails horror stories.

Links for this episode:

• TextUs
  
• Boulder Ruby Group (Boulder, CO) | Meetup
  
• Donut
  
• JT (@thetizzo) | Twitter
  
• Hiding Ruby 2.7 Deprecation Warnings in Rails 6 | Andrew Mason
  
• Episode Introduction and Outro by Michael Springer
  
• Episode Music: "Funkorama" by Kevin MacLeod
  

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Ruby is more than Rails. Brittany welcomed Piotr Solnica, Senior Ruby Backend Engineer at Castle.io and creator of ROM.rb and dry-rb core team member to the show to discuss his new job, OSS contributions and why he left Rails.

Links for this episode:

• Castle.io - Castle - Security Automation
  
• solnic.codes / Blog / My time with Rails is up
  
• Hanami | The web, with simplicity
  
• dry-rb
  
• ROM.rb
  
• Hanami 2.0 - Trello
  
• dry-rb/dry-transaction: Business transaction DSL - GitHub
  
• Data Mapper Pattern - Wikipedia
  
• Piotr Solnica (@_solnic_) | Twitter
  
• solnic (Piotr Solnica) · GitHub
  
• Episode Introduction and Outro by Michael Springer
  
• Episode Music: "Funkorama" by Kevin MacLeod
  

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Cameron Dutro believes we need Active Deployment like we have Active Record and Active Storage. That's what kuby is - an easy way to deploy your Ruby on Rails application without getting your dev-ops black belt first.

Links for this episode:

• Quip @ Salesforce
  
• fluther.com
  
• getkuby / kuby-core: A convention over configuration approach for deploying Rails apps.
  
• Ruby Rogues: Rails Needs Active Deployment with Stefan Wintermeyer
  
• kirillian / shiplane: Convert your development docker-compose yaml files
  
• camertron (Cameron Dutro) · GitHub
  
• Cameron on Twitter (@camertron)
  
• Episode Introduction and Outro by Michael Springer
  
• Episode Music: "Funkorama" by Kevin MacLeod
  

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Rachel Green is a web developer based in Houston, Texas with experience in building B2B, e-commerce, and enterprise applications. She is an admin for the Ruby on Rails Slack group and is also involved with civic engagement and advocacy efforts and is passionate about the potential for tech to do good for others.

Links for this episode:

• Webmaster - Wikipedia
  
• ChaiOne | Powering Industrial Digitialization
  
• Ruby on Rails Link - A Slack Community
  
• EBWiki
  
• Rachel Green on LinkedIn
  
• Episode Introduction and Outro by Michael Springer
  
• Episode Music: "Funkorama" by Kevin MacLeod
  

Tori Huang, software engineer at Gusto, and her team recently embarked on a journey toward unbundling part of Gusto’s monolithic Ruby on Rails app. She and Brittany discuss knowing when to uncouple a service and how to identify orphan code.

Links for this episode:

• Gusto
  
• RoR 322: Rails CI Pipeline Performance with Kelly Sutton
  
• Chipping Away at a Monolith - Gusto Engineering
  
• yak shaving - Urban Dictionary
  
• unused-code / unused | A tool to identify potentially unused code.
  
• Tori Huang – Medium
  
• Tori Huang - Senior Software Engineer - Gusto | LinkedIn
  
• Episode Introduction and Outro by Michael Springer
  
• Episode Music: "Funkorama" by Kevin MacLeod
  

It's been hinted around but Brittany has a new job! She is the new Backend Engineering Lead at TextUs. She invites Nick back to the show to pepper her with questions about switching, remote work and a new codebase. In turn, Brittany asks Nick for an update on Past Rubies.

Links for this episode:

• TextUs
  
• Jobs at TextUs
  
• Chef: Enabling the Coded Enterprise through Infrastructure
  
• dry-rb
  
• Full Stack Ruby on Rails Developer – The Pittsburgh Cultural Trust
  
• #NoRuKo Videos
  
• 99 Bottles of OOP by Sandi Metz
  
• Past Rubies
  
• Past Rubies: Language Trends on GitHub [2015]
  
• Past Rubies: Slashdot Interview with DHH [2006]
  
• Schwad4HD14 (@Schwad4HD14) · Twitter
  
• Episode Introduction and Outro by Michael Springer
  
• Episode Music: "Funkorama" by Kevin MacLeod