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Panel: Lucas Reis Nader Dabit Special Guest: Radoslav Stankov In this episode, the panelists talk with today’s guest, Radoslav Stankov, who is a senior developer at Product Hunt. The panel and the guest talk about React, jQuery, Backbone, and much more! Check it out! Show Topics: 0:00 – Kendo UI 0:31 – Nader: Hello! Our guest today is Radoslav. 4:02 – Nader: What is your role and what are your main responsibilities? 4:10 – Guest answers. 4:39 – Panel: Can you tell us the story of how you started to use React? 4:55 – Guest: We started 4 years ago. The guest answers the question and mentions jQuery and Backbone. 9:01 – Panel: That’s nice – so you are trying to use a simpler application but the React server still need to be separated right? 9:14 – Guest: Yes, we tried to keep it as simple as possible. 10:38 – Panel: How was the adoption of React and how painful was it? You mentioned that you were used Flux and others, so was it messy and complicated for you? Or was it easy for you? 11:15 – Guest: It had its moments. 16:03 – Nader: So what are some of the reasons why you would be messing around with service-side rendering? 16:20 – The guest lists the reasons why they use it. 18:07 – Nader: Interesting. It helps for mobile clients? What do you mean – is it for the people with slower connections? 18:22 – Guest: Yes. The mobile plan can see the page. It can actually see how it’s rendered. 19:53 – Panel: How do you detect that it’s a mobile request from the server? 20:00 – Guest. 31:04 – Panel: We wanted to make it much faster and started using Node and streaming the library. Instead of creating a big string and then sending back to the user we were using the function...It’s super cool. We started using 30% less resources once we’ve deployed. (Wow!) Yeah I know! When you stream then the Node can be smarter and streaming at the same time. 32:03 – Guest. 33:21 – Panel: Interesting thing about the streaming is that we were fetching data after it started. After it was streaming HTML it was already... 38:21 – Nader: We talked about the WEB but you are all using REACT with mobile, too. Can you talk about how your company is using REACT? I know you’ve made things natively, too. 38:40 – Guest: I bit of history first then I will answer the question. 41:29 – Nader: Do you think the changes will happen in the right time to help with your fruition or no? 41:45 – Guest answers. 43:33 – How does the team manage working with all of these technologies? Does everyone have his or her own role? 43:54 – Guest answers. 48:03 – Panel: What are the drawbacks to that? 48:10 – Guest answers. 50:52 – Nader: Anything else? 51:00 – Guest: I think we covered a lot of great topics! Ads: FreshBooks! Get A Coder Job! Cache Fly! Links: Ruby on Rails Angular JavaScript Elm Phoenix GitHub Get A Coder Job React Round Up Guest’s LinkedIn Guest’s GitHubGist Introducing Hooks Idle Until Urgent Nader’s Tweet Sponsors: Get a Coder Job Cache Fly Fresh Books Kendo UI Picks: Radoslav Getting to know React DOM’s event handling system inside and out React Fiber Architecture React Hooks React.NotAConf Lucas Idle Until Urgent Introducing Hooks Nader Writing Custom React Hooks for GraphQL React Native Hooks
Panel: Lucas Reis Nader Dabit Special Guest: Radoslav Stankov In this episode, the panelists talk with today’s guest, Radoslav Stankov, who is a senior developer at Product Hunt. The panel and the guest talk about React, jQuery, Backbone, and much more! Check it out! Show Topics: 0:00 – Kendo UI 0:31 – Nader: Hello! Our guest today is Radoslav. 4:02 – Nader: What is your role and what are your main responsibilities? 4:10 – Guest answers. 4:39 – Panel: Can you tell us the story of how you started to use React? 4:55 – Guest: We started 4 years ago. The guest answers the question and mentions jQuery and Backbone. 9:01 – Panel: That’s nice – so you are trying to use a simpler application but the React server still need to be separated right? 9:14 – Guest: Yes, we tried to keep it as simple as possible. 10:38 – Panel: How was the adoption of React and how painful was it? You mentioned that you were used Flux and others, so was it messy and complicated for you? Or was it easy for you? 11:15 – Guest: It had its moments. 16:03 – Nader: So what are some of the reasons why you would be messing around with service-side rendering? 16:20 – The guest lists the reasons why they use it. 18:07 – Nader: Interesting. It helps for mobile clients? What do you mean – is it for the people with slower connections? 18:22 – Guest: Yes. The mobile plan can see the page. It can actually see how it’s rendered. 19:53 – Panel: How do you detect that it’s a mobile request from the server? 20:00 – Guest. 31:04 – Panel: We wanted to make it much faster and started using Node and streaming the library. Instead of creating a big string and then sending back to the user we were using the function...It’s super cool. We started using 30% less resources once we’ve deployed. (Wow!) Yeah I know! When you stream then the Node can be smarter and streaming at the same time. 32:03 – Guest. 33:21 – Panel: Interesting thing about the streaming is that we were fetching data after it started. After it was streaming HTML it was already... 38:21 – Nader: We talked about the WEB but you are all using REACT with mobile, too. Can you talk about how your company is using REACT? I know you’ve made things natively, too. 38:40 – Guest: I bit of history first then I will answer the question. 41:29 – Nader: Do you think the changes will happen in the right time to help with your fruition or no? 41:45 – Guest answers. 43:33 – How does the team manage working with all of these technologies? Does everyone have his or her own role? 43:54 – Guest answers. 48:03 – Panel: What are the drawbacks to that? 48:10 – Guest answers. 50:52 – Nader: Anything else? 51:00 – Guest: I think we covered a lot of great topics! Ads: FreshBooks! Get A Coder Job! Cache Fly! Links: Ruby on Rails Angular JavaScript Elm Phoenix GitHub Get A Coder Job React Round Up Guest’s LinkedIn Guest’s GitHubGist Introducing Hooks Idle Until Urgent Nader’s Tweet Sponsors: Get a Coder Job Cache Fly Fresh Books Kendo UI Picks: Radoslav Getting to know React DOM’s event handling system inside and out React Fiber Architecture React Hooks React.NotAConf Lucas Idle Until Urgent Introducing Hooks Nader Writing Custom React Hooks for GraphQL React Native Hooks
Panel: Aimee Knight AJ O’Neal Charles Max Wood Special Guest: Gil Tayar In this episode, the panel talks with Gil Tayar who is currently residing in Tel Aviv and is a software engineer. He is currently the Senior Architect at Applitools in Israel. The panel and the guest talk about the different types of tests and when/how one is to use a certain test in a particular situation. They also mention Node, React, Selenium, Puppeteer, and much more! Show Topics: 0:00 – Advertisement: KENDO UI 0:35 – Chuck: Our panel is AJ, Aimee, myself – and our special guest is Gil Tayar. Tell us why you are famous! 1:13 – Gil talks about where he resides and his background. 2:27 – Chuck: What is the landscape like now with testing and testing tools now? 2:39 – Guest: There is a huge renaissance with the JavaScript community. Testing has moved forward in the frontend and backend. Today we have lots of testing tools. We can do frontend testing that wasn’t possible 5 years ago. The major change was React. The guest talks about Node, React, tools, and more! 4:17 – Aimee: I advocate for tests and testing. There is a grey area though...how do you treat that? If you have to get something into production, but it’s not THE thing to get into production, does that fall into product or...what? 5:02 – Guest: We decided to test everything in the beginning. We actually cam through and did that and since then I don’t think I can use the right code without testing. There are a lot of different situations, though, to consider. The guest gives hypothetical situations that people could face. 6:27 – Aimee. 6:32 – Guest: The horror to changing code without tests, I don’t know, I haven’t done that for a while. You write with fear in your heart. Your design is driven by fear, and not what you think is right. In the beginning don’t write those tests, but... 7:22 – Aimee: I totally agree and I could go on and on and on. 7:42 – Panel: I want to do tests when I know they will create value. I don’t want to do it b/c it’s a mundane thing. Secondly, I find that some times I am in a situation where I cannot write the test b/c I would have to know the business logic is correct. I am in this discovery mode of what is the business logic? I am not just building your app. I guess I just need advice in this area, I guess. 8:55 – Guest gives advice to panelist’s question. He mentions how there are two schools of thought. 10:20 – Guest: Don’t mock too much. 10:54 – Panel: Are unit tests the easiest? I just reach for unit testing b/c it helps me code faster. But 90% of my code is NOT that. 11:18 – Guest: Exactly! Most of our test is glue – gluing together a bunch of different stuff! Those are best tested as a medium-sized integration suite. 12:39 – Panel: That seems like a lot of work, though! I loathe the database stuff b/c they don’t map cleanly. I hate this database stuff. 13:06 – Guest: I agree, but don’t knock the database, but knock the level above the database. 13:49 – Guest: Yes, it takes time! Building the script and the testing tools, but when you have it then adding to it is zero time. Once you are in the air it’s smooth sailing. 14:17 – Panel: I guess I can see that. I like to do the dumb-way the first time. I am not clear on the transition. 14:47 – Guest: Write the code, and then write the tests. The guest gives a hypothetical situation on how/when to test in a certain situation. 16:25 – Panel: Can you talk about that more, please? 16:50 – Guest: Don’t have the same unit – do browser and business logic stuff separated. The real business logic stuff needs to be above that level. First principle is separation of concerns. 18:04 – Panel talks about dependency interjection and asks a question. 18:27 – Guest: What I am talking about very, very light inter-dependency interjection. 19:19 – Panel: You have a main function and you are doing requires in the main function. You are passing the pieces of that into the components that need it. 19:44 – Guest: I only do it when it’s necessary; it’s not a religion for me. I do it only for those layers that I know will need to be mocked; like database layers, etc. 20:09 – Panel. 20:19 – Guest: It’s taken me 80 years to figure out, but I have made plenty of mistakes a long the way. A test should run for 2-5 minutes max for package. 20:53 – Panel: What if you have a really messy legacy system? How do you recommend going into that? Do you write tests for things that you think needs to get tested? 21:39 – Guest answers the question and mentions Selenium! 24:27 – Panel: I like that approach. 24:35 – Chuck: When you say integration test what do you mean? 24:44 – Guest: Integration tests aren’t usually talked about. For most people it’s tests that test the database level against the database. For me, the integration tests are taking a set of classes as they are in the application and testing them together w/o the...so they can run in millisecond time. 26:54 – Advertisement – Sentry.io 27:52 – Chuck: How much do the tools matter? 28:01 – Guest: The revolutions matter. Whether you use Jasmine or Mocha or whatever I don’t think it matters. The tests matter not the tools. 28:39 – Aimee: Yes and no. I think some tools are outdated. 28:50 – Guest: I got a lot of flack about my blog where I talk about Cypress versus Selenium. I will never use Jasmine. In the end it’s the 29:29 – Aimee: I am curious would you be willing to expand on what the Selenium folks were saying about Puppeteer and others may not provide? 29:54 – Guest: Cypress was built for frontend developers. They don’t care about cross browser, and they tested in Chrome. Most browsers are typically the same. Selenium was built with the QA mindset – end to end tests that we need to do cross browser. The guest continues with this topic. 30:54 – Aimee mentions Cypress. 31:08 – Guest: My guessing is that their priority is not there. I kind of agree with them. 31:21 – Aimee: I think they are focusing on mobile more. 31:24 – Guest: I think cross browser testing is less of an issue now. There is one area that is important it’s the visual area! It’s important to test visually across these different browsers. 32:32 – Guest: Selenium is a Swiss knife – it can do everything. 33:32 – Chuck: I am thinking about different topics to talk about. I haven’t used Puppeteer. What’s that about? 33:49 – Guest: Puppeteer is much more like Selenium. The reason why it’s great is b/c Puppeteer will always be Google Chrome. 35:42 – Chuck: When should you be running your tests? I like to use some unit tests when I am doing my development but how do you break that down? 36:06 – Guest. 38:30 – Chuck: You run tests against production? 38:45 – Guest: Don’t run tests against production...let me clarify! 39:14 – Chuck. 39:21 – Guest: When I am talking about integration testing in the backend... 40:37 – Chuck asks a question. 40:47 – Guest: I am constantly running between frontend and backend. I didn’t know how to run tests for frontend. I had to invent a new thing and I “invented” the package JS DONG. It’s an implementation of Dong in Node. I found out that I wasn’t the only one and that there were others out there, too. 43:14 – Chuck: Nice! You talked in the prep docs that you urged a new frontend developer to not run the app in the browser for 2 months? 43:25 – Guest: Yeah, I found out that she was running the application...she said she knew how to write tests. I wanted her to see it my way and it probably was a radical train-of-thought, and that was this... 44:40 – Guest: Frontend is so visual. 45:12 – Chuck: What are you working on now? 45:16 – Guest: I am working with Applitools and I was impressed with what they were doing. The guest goes into further detail. 46:08 – Guest: Those screenshots are never the same. 48:36 – Panel: It’s...comparing the output to the static site to the... 48:50 – Guest: Yes, that static site – if you have 30 pages in your app – most of those are the same. We have this trick where we don’t upload it again and again. Uploading the whole static site is usually very quick. The second thing is we don’t wait for the results. We don’t wait for the whole rendering and we continue with the tests. 50:28 – Guest: I am working mostly (right now) in backend. 50:40 – Chuck: Anything else? Picks! 50:57 – Advertisement: Get A Coder Job! END – Advertisement: CacheFly! Links: JavaScript React Elixir Node.js Puppeteer Cypress SeleniumHQ Article – Ideas.Ted.Com Book: Never Split the Difference Applitools Guest’s Blog Article about Cypress vs. Selenium Gil’s Twitter Gil’s Medium Gil’s LinkedIn Sponsors: Kendo UI Sentry CacheFly Picks: Aimee How Showing Vulnerability Helps Build a Stronger Team AJ Never Split the Difference Project - TeleBit Charles Monster Hunter International Metabase Gil Cat Zero The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind
Panel: Dave Kimura Eric Berry Charles Max Wood Nate Hopkins Special Guest: Pedro Cavalheiro In this episode of Ruby Rogues, the panelists talk with Pedro Cavalheiro 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 background and his article. Check it out! Show Topics: 0:00 – Advertisement: Sentry.io 1:04 – Chuck: Hi! Panel is Eric, Dave, Nate, myself – and our special guest is Pedro Cavalheiro! Please introduce yourself! Is that Spanish or Portuguese? Chuck: P.S. – The DevRev is my new show and check it! 1:57 – Guest: My name means gentleman! Here at your service. 2:05 – Guest: I am a developer and worked with web technologies for 10 years. I do some DevOps stuff and working with Ruby. I just moved to Hamburg, Germany with the same company. 3:02 – Chuck: How do you make that decision? 3:07 – Guest: There is no magical answer. It depends on your needs and what time you have? At the time when I wrote that article I worked with a small startup company. For us, we used Heroku at the time. 4:09 – Guest: Current company is bigger and 500 developers. We have different ops teams and they have their own infrastructure and tools. They have more money, time, and people. For what they need it needs to be more scalable. It depends on the company and the requirements and your resources. 5:00 – Panel: I need to preface first: I love hosted solutions, but at the same time there is a hidden cost set that people don’t think about. 6:16 – Guest: If you compare your own infrastructure vs. cloud platform they will think that it is cheaper than having a hosted solution. 7:28 – Chuck: Yeah, that’s a discussion that I find that I have with myself and with my own company. It makes a ton of sense to have some system setup and it’s something that I am managing. 8:05 – Panelists talks about AWS and AMI. 9:06 – Guest. 9:21 – Panel: Can you talk about the article you wrote? Why did you write it? Give us some context into the article and where are we now? 9:48 – Guest talks in-detail about his article and where he was in life when he wrote this article! 14:10 – Panel: How much time did you invest into that? 14:16 – Guest: Less than a week; maybe 3-4 days for the whole process. Writing the article took about 2 days. 14:50 – Chuck talks about Docker, Azure, Dokku among other things. Question: Where do you look at all of these different things, and how do evaluate? 16:02 – Guest: I am a huge Heroku fan, and I would suggest people to use it. It’s brilliant. The company I work today it could be expensive to use b/c it’s a heavy load application and it won’t work. As for me (personal projects) I will play around these different tools. 19:02 – Panel: It’s easy to get up and running of Heroku. I think it’s similar to Kubernetes. 20:00 – Guest: I agree with that. The guest shares a story that relates to this topic. 21:45 – Panel: If you are using self-hosted...put some security on your application. Even if it’s just a demo you are protecting your environment. 22:17 – Chuck: Where do you guys come down on making these types of decisions? 22:30 – Panel: I see it as an investment; especially if your development team is small. Eventually, it will scale but in the early days of a project it is a legit choice to use Heroku or Beanstalk. CodeFund is still on Heroku. Right now it’s solving those problems for us. 23:45 – Chuck: Look at everything that we are all running. What do you guys recommend? 24:19 – Panel: I use S3, elastic search, among other things. 25:56 – Guest: I have a similar story. I had some friends who were spending more than $2,000 a month on Heroku. We tried to find how to reduce the amount of money. We removed the application from the Heroku and put it inside a local machine (probably $800 computer) that runs 24/7 and the only expenses were Internet ($50.00 / month) and 1 SSD ($100) and 1 micro-server through Amazon. Now it works and we were spending over 200x the amount that we needed to. In this example it wasn’t a critical system. In this case self-host was far better and cheaper, so it really depends on your case. 28:08 – Panel: Yeah, sometimes the old school and simple solutions are it. 28:26 – Chuck: I have a virtual machine/servers on Digital Ocean, and I cap deploy. I will login in every-now-and-then, but that’s it. 28:50 – Panel adds in his comments to this topic. 29:17 – Guest: Sometimes these old school solutions tend to be slower, but it depends on what you need for that situation. 29:50 – Chuck: David Brady called that his “Time to Twitter.” 30:04 – Fresh Books! 31:10 – Chuck: Can you talk about your discussion about this, please? 31:23 – Guest: I wrote this article, and it was translated into a few different languages. In the talk that I gave, I talked about my article. It’s funny b/c I wasn’t expecting all of this attention. 33:33 – Guest: I was nervous when I gave the talk so I don’t think it was that good. (Laughs.) 33:50 – Guest: We are human beings and we are always making mistakes, which is okay. 36:55 – Chuck: Yeah I run into that, too. Especially when running the podcast. 37:14 – Guest: That’s apart of the game right? We like to play with new technologies and if it weren’t for experimenting with new stuff our whole industry wouldn’t be as fun. We have the freedom to test, and we get to break tings and not get fired. That’s apart of our jobs. 37:51 – Panel: That’s a good point. A service like beanstalk or Heroku it’s easy to push your app out into the world. But when you dig in deeper, I think that knowledge really starts to seep in and you get to be a better developer. 38:27 – Chuck comments on this topic. 39:12 – Panel: To Pedro’s point... 39:42 – Guest: Yes, we work as a frontend or backend developer or a system administrator, but we need to understand the infrastructure. I want to know and when I know more then my work as a backend developer will improve and communicate with the system. That people know how to use Ruby on Rails and they get used to it but forget about database behind that, and...where you can write your own inquires. They think it’s not their job, but it IS their job. 41:17 – Chuck: To take that step one step further. Chuck talks about performance issues, codes, and more. 41:48 – Chuck: I want to try out Dokku! 42:00 – Guest comments. 43:53 – Chuck: Let’s do Picks! 44:00 – Advertisement: Get A Coder Job! End – Cache Fly! Links: Get a Coder Job Course Ruby Ruby on Rails Angular React React Native Docker Kubernetes Heroku Beanstalk CodeFund Amazon S3 GitHub: Kubernetes IMDB – Pedro C. FB: RR – DevChat TV RR 382 Episode Pedro’s blog article: “Creating a Heroku-Like Deployment Solution with Docker” Comic of Code Compiling GitHub: Dokku/Dokku Digital Ocean: Dokku Digital Ocean: Cloud Hosting App Developers Love Pedro’s Website Pedro’s Twitter Pedro’s Crunchbase Pedro’s GitHub Sponsors: Sentry CacheFly Fresh Books Picks: Dave Legos Rubix’s Cube Eric Digital Ocean @samantha_tse @jna_sh @Zaltsman Nate Alone - History Channel Charles MF CEO - Podcast Extreme Ownership - Book Drip TheDevRev.com Pedro Di.FM Shortcut Foo
Panel: Dave Kimura Eric Berry Charles Max Wood Nate Hopkins Special Guest: Pedro Cavalheiro In this episode of Ruby Rogues, the panelists talk with Pedro Cavalheiro 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 background and his article. Check it out! Show Topics: 0:00 – Advertisement: Sentry.io 1:04 – Chuck: Hi! Panel is Eric, Dave, Nate, myself – and our special guest is Pedro Cavalheiro! Please introduce yourself! Is that Spanish or Portuguese? Chuck: P.S. – The DevRev is my new show and check it! 1:57 – Guest: My name means gentleman! Here at your service. 2:05 – Guest: I am a developer and worked with web technologies for 10 years. I do some DevOps stuff and working with Ruby. I just moved to Hamburg, Germany with the same company. 3:02 – Chuck: How do you make that decision? 3:07 – Guest: There is no magical answer. It depends on your needs and what time you have? At the time when I wrote that article I worked with a small startup company. For us, we used Heroku at the time. 4:09 – Guest: Current company is bigger and 500 developers. We have different ops teams and they have their own infrastructure and tools. They have more money, time, and people. For what they need it needs to be more scalable. It depends on the company and the requirements and your resources. 5:00 – Panel: I need to preface first: I love hosted solutions, but at the same time there is a hidden cost set that people don’t think about. 6:16 – Guest: If you compare your own infrastructure vs. cloud platform they will think that it is cheaper than having a hosted solution. 7:28 – Chuck: Yeah, that’s a discussion that I find that I have with myself and with my own company. It makes a ton of sense to have some system setup and it’s something that I am managing. 8:05 – Panelists talks about AWS and AMI. 9:06 – Guest. 9:21 – Panel: Can you talk about the article you wrote? Why did you write it? Give us some context into the article and where are we now? 9:48 – Guest talks in-detail about his article and where he was in life when he wrote this article! 14:10 – Panel: How much time did you invest into that? 14:16 – Guest: Less than a week; maybe 3-4 days for the whole process. Writing the article took about 2 days. 14:50 – Chuck talks about Docker, Azure, Dokku among other things. Question: Where do you look at all of these different things, and how do evaluate? 16:02 – Guest: I am a huge Heroku fan, and I would suggest people to use it. It’s brilliant. The company I work today it could be expensive to use b/c it’s a heavy load application and it won’t work. As for me (personal projects) I will play around these different tools. 19:02 – Panel: It’s easy to get up and running of Heroku. I think it’s similar to Kubernetes. 20:00 – Guest: I agree with that. The guest shares a story that relates to this topic. 21:45 – Panel: If you are using self-hosted...put some security on your application. Even if it’s just a demo you are protecting your environment. 22:17 – Chuck: Where do you guys come down on making these types of decisions? 22:30 – Panel: I see it as an investment; especially if your development team is small. Eventually, it will scale but in the early days of a project it is a legit choice to use Heroku or Beanstalk. CodeFund is still on Heroku. Right now it’s solving those problems for us. 23:45 – Chuck: Look at everything that we are all running. What do you guys recommend? 24:19 – Panel: I use S3, elastic search, among other things. 25:56 – Guest: I have a similar story. I had some friends who were spending more than $2,000 a month on Heroku. We tried to find how to reduce the amount of money. We removed the application from the Heroku and put it inside a local machine (probably $800 computer) that runs 24/7 and the only expenses were Internet ($50.00 / month) and 1 SSD ($100) and 1 micro-server through Amazon. Now it works and we were spending over 200x the amount that we needed to. In this example it wasn’t a critical system. In this case self-host was far better and cheaper, so it really depends on your case. 28:08 – Panel: Yeah, sometimes the old school and simple solutions are it. 28:26 – Chuck: I have a virtual machine/servers on Digital Ocean, and I cap deploy. I will login in every-now-and-then, but that’s it. 28:50 – Panel adds in his comments to this topic. 29:17 – Guest: Sometimes these old school solutions tend to be slower, but it depends on what you need for that situation. 29:50 – Chuck: David Brady called that his “Time to Twitter.” 30:04 – Fresh Books! 31:10 – Chuck: Can you talk about your discussion about this, please? 31:23 – Guest: I wrote this article, and it was translated into a few different languages. In the talk that I gave, I talked about my article. It’s funny b/c I wasn’t expecting all of this attention. 33:33 – Guest: I was nervous when I gave the talk so I don’t think it was that good. (Laughs.) 33:50 – Guest: We are human beings and we are always making mistakes, which is okay. 36:55 – Chuck: Yeah I run into that, too. Especially when running the podcast. 37:14 – Guest: That’s apart of the game right? We like to play with new technologies and if it weren’t for experimenting with new stuff our whole industry wouldn’t be as fun. We have the freedom to test, and we get to break tings and not get fired. That’s apart of our jobs. 37:51 – Panel: That’s a good point. A service like beanstalk or Heroku it’s easy to push your app out into the world. But when you dig in deeper, I think that knowledge really starts to seep in and you get to be a better developer. 38:27 – Chuck comments on this topic. 39:12 – Panel: To Pedro’s point... 39:42 – Guest: Yes, we work as a frontend or backend developer or a system administrator, but we need to understand the infrastructure. I want to know and when I know more then my work as a backend developer will improve and communicate with the system. That people know how to use Ruby on Rails and they get used to it but forget about database behind that, and...where you can write your own inquires. They think it’s not their job, but it IS their job. 41:17 – Chuck: To take that step one step further. Chuck talks about performance issues, codes, and more. 41:48 – Chuck: I want to try out Dokku! 42:00 – Guest comments. 43:53 – Chuck: Let’s do Picks! 44:00 – Advertisement: Get A Coder Job! End – Cache Fly! Links: Get a Coder Job Course Ruby Ruby on Rails Angular React React Native Docker Kubernetes Heroku Beanstalk CodeFund Amazon S3 GitHub: Kubernetes IMDB – Pedro C. FB: RR – DevChat TV RR 382 Episode Pedro’s blog article: “Creating a Heroku-Like Deployment Solution with Docker” Comic of Code Compiling GitHub: Dokku/Dokku Digital Ocean: Dokku Digital Ocean: Cloud Hosting App Developers Love Pedro’s Website Pedro’s Twitter Pedro’s Crunchbase Pedro’s GitHub Sponsors: Sentry CacheFly Fresh Books Picks: Dave Legos Rubix’s Cube Eric Digital Ocean @samantha_tse @jna_sh @Zaltsman Nate Alone - History Channel Charles MF CEO - Podcast Extreme Ownership - Book Drip TheDevRev.com Pedro Di.FM Shortcut Foo
Panel: Dave Kimura Eric Berry Charles Max Wood Nate Hopkins Special Guest: Pedro Cavalheiro In this episode of Ruby Rogues, the panelists talk with Pedro Cavalheiro 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 background and his article. Check it out! Show Topics: 0:00 – Advertisement: Sentry.io 1:04 – Chuck: Hi! Panel is Eric, Dave, Nate, myself – and our special guest is Pedro Cavalheiro! Please introduce yourself! Is that Spanish or Portuguese? Chuck: P.S. – The DevRev is my new show and check it! 1:57 – Guest: My name means gentleman! Here at your service. 2:05 – Guest: I am a developer and worked with web technologies for 10 years. I do some DevOps stuff and working with Ruby. I just moved to Hamburg, Germany with the same company. 3:02 – Chuck: How do you make that decision? 3:07 – Guest: There is no magical answer. It depends on your needs and what time you have? At the time when I wrote that article I worked with a small startup company. For us, we used Heroku at the time. 4:09 – Guest: Current company is bigger and 500 developers. We have different ops teams and they have their own infrastructure and tools. They have more money, time, and people. For what they need it needs to be more scalable. It depends on the company and the requirements and your resources. 5:00 – Panel: I need to preface first: I love hosted solutions, but at the same time there is a hidden cost set that people don’t think about. 6:16 – Guest: If you compare your own infrastructure vs. cloud platform they will think that it is cheaper than having a hosted solution. 7:28 – Chuck: Yeah, that’s a discussion that I find that I have with myself and with my own company. It makes a ton of sense to have some system setup and it’s something that I am managing. 8:05 – Panelists talks about AWS and AMI. 9:06 – Guest. 9:21 – Panel: Can you talk about the article you wrote? Why did you write it? Give us some context into the article and where are we now? 9:48 – Guest talks in-detail about his article and where he was in life when he wrote this article! 14:10 – Panel: How much time did you invest into that? 14:16 – Guest: Less than a week; maybe 3-4 days for the whole process. Writing the article took about 2 days. 14:50 – Chuck talks about Docker, Azure, Dokku among other things. Question: Where do you look at all of these different things, and how do evaluate? 16:02 – Guest: I am a huge Heroku fan, and I would suggest people to use it. It’s brilliant. The company I work today it could be expensive to use b/c it’s a heavy load application and it won’t work. As for me (personal projects) I will play around these different tools. 19:02 – Panel: It’s easy to get up and running of Heroku. I think it’s similar to Kubernetes. 20:00 – Guest: I agree with that. The guest shares a story that relates to this topic. 21:45 – Panel: If you are using self-hosted...put some security on your application. Even if it’s just a demo you are protecting your environment. 22:17 – Chuck: Where do you guys come down on making these types of decisions? 22:30 – Panel: I see it as an investment; especially if your development team is small. Eventually, it will scale but in the early days of a project it is a legit choice to use Heroku or Beanstalk. CodeFund is still on Heroku. Right now it’s solving those problems for us. 23:45 – Chuck: Look at everything that we are all running. What do you guys recommend? 24:19 – Panel: I use S3, elastic search, among other things. 25:56 – Guest: I have a similar story. I had some friends who were spending more than $2,000 a month on Heroku. We tried to find how to reduce the amount of money. We removed the application from the Heroku and put it inside a local machine (probably $800 computer) that runs 24/7 and the only expenses were Internet ($50.00 / month) and 1 SSD ($100) and 1 micro-server through Amazon. Now it works and we were spending over 200x the amount that we needed to. In this example it wasn’t a critical system. In this case self-host was far better and cheaper, so it really depends on your case. 28:08 – Panel: Yeah, sometimes the old school and simple solutions are it. 28:26 – Chuck: I have a virtual machine/servers on Digital Ocean, and I cap deploy. I will login in every-now-and-then, but that’s it. 28:50 – Panel adds in his comments to this topic. 29:17 – Guest: Sometimes these old school solutions tend to be slower, but it depends on what you need for that situation. 29:50 – Chuck: David Brady called that his “Time to Twitter.” 30:04 – Fresh Books! 31:10 – Chuck: Can you talk about your discussion about this, please? 31:23 – Guest: I wrote this article, and it was translated into a few different languages. In the talk that I gave, I talked about my article. It’s funny b/c I wasn’t expecting all of this attention. 33:33 – Guest: I was nervous when I gave the talk so I don’t think it was that good. (Laughs.) 33:50 – Guest: We are human beings and we are always making mistakes, which is okay. 36:55 – Chuck: Yeah I run into that, too. Especially when running the podcast. 37:14 – Guest: That’s apart of the game right? We like to play with new technologies and if it weren’t for experimenting with new stuff our whole industry wouldn’t be as fun. We have the freedom to test, and we get to break tings and not get fired. That’s apart of our jobs. 37:51 – Panel: That’s a good point. A service like beanstalk or Heroku it’s easy to push your app out into the world. But when you dig in deeper, I think that knowledge really starts to seep in and you get to be a better developer. 38:27 – Chuck comments on this topic. 39:12 – Panel: To Pedro’s point... 39:42 – Guest: Yes, we work as a frontend or backend developer or a system administrator, but we need to understand the infrastructure. I want to know and when I know more then my work as a backend developer will improve and communicate with the system. That people know how to use Ruby on Rails and they get used to it but forget about database behind that, and...where you can write your own inquires. They think it’s not their job, but it IS their job. 41:17 – Chuck: To take that step one step further. Chuck talks about performance issues, codes, and more. 41:48 – Chuck: I want to try out Dokku! 42:00 – Guest comments. 43:53 – Chuck: Let’s do Picks! 44:00 – Advertisement: Get A Coder Job! End – Cache Fly! Links: Get a Coder Job Course Ruby Ruby on Rails Angular React React Native Docker Kubernetes Heroku Beanstalk CodeFund Amazon S3 GitHub: Kubernetes IMDB – Pedro C. FB: RR – DevChat TV RR 382 Episode Pedro’s blog article: “Creating a Heroku-Like Deployment Solution with Docker” Comic of Code Compiling GitHub: Dokku/Dokku Digital Ocean: Dokku Digital Ocean: Cloud Hosting App Developers Love Pedro’s Website Pedro’s Twitter Pedro’s Crunchbase Pedro’s GitHub Sponsors: Sentry CacheFly Fresh Books Picks: Dave Legos Rubix’s Cube Eric Digital Ocean @samantha_tse @jna_sh @Zaltsman Nate Alone - History Channel Charles MF CEO - Podcast Extreme Ownership - Book Drip TheDevRev.com Pedro Di.FM Shortcut Foo
Panel: Aimee Knight AJ O’Neal Charles Max Wood Special Guest: Gil Tayar In this episode, the panel talks with Gil Tayar who is currently residing in Tel Aviv and is a software engineer. He is currently the Senior Architect at Applitools in Israel. The panel and the guest talk about the different types of tests and when/how one is to use a certain test in a particular situation. They also mention Node, React, Selenium, Puppeteer, and much more! Show Topics: 0:00 – Advertisement: KENDO UI 0:35 – Chuck: Our panel is AJ, Aimee, myself – and our special guest is Gil Tayar. Tell us why you are famous! 1:13 – Gil talks about where he resides and his background. 2:27 – Chuck: What is the landscape like now with testing and testing tools now? 2:39 – Guest: There is a huge renaissance with the JavaScript community. Testing has moved forward in the frontend and backend. Today we have lots of testing tools. We can do frontend testing that wasn’t possible 5 years ago. The major change was React. The guest talks about Node, React, tools, and more! 4:17 – Aimee: I advocate for tests and testing. There is a grey area though...how do you treat that? If you have to get something into production, but it’s not THE thing to get into production, does that fall into product or...what? 5:02 – Guest: We decided to test everything in the beginning. We actually cam through and did that and since then I don’t think I can use the right code without testing. There are a lot of different situations, though, to consider. The guest gives hypothetical situations that people could face. 6:27 – Aimee. 6:32 – Guest: The horror to changing code without tests, I don’t know, I haven’t done that for a while. You write with fear in your heart. Your design is driven by fear, and not what you think is right. In the beginning don’t write those tests, but... 7:22 – Aimee: I totally agree and I could go on and on and on. 7:42 – Panel: I want to do tests when I know they will create value. I don’t want to do it b/c it’s a mundane thing. Secondly, I find that some times I am in a situation where I cannot write the test b/c I would have to know the business logic is correct. I am in this discovery mode of what is the business logic? I am not just building your app. I guess I just need advice in this area, I guess. 8:55 – Guest gives advice to panelist’s question. He mentions how there are two schools of thought. 10:20 – Guest: Don’t mock too much. 10:54 – Panel: Are unit tests the easiest? I just reach for unit testing b/c it helps me code faster. But 90% of my code is NOT that. 11:18 – Guest: Exactly! Most of our test is glue – gluing together a bunch of different stuff! Those are best tested as a medium-sized integration suite. 12:39 – Panel: That seems like a lot of work, though! I loathe the database stuff b/c they don’t map cleanly. I hate this database stuff. 13:06 – Guest: I agree, but don’t knock the database, but knock the level above the database. 13:49 – Guest: Yes, it takes time! Building the script and the testing tools, but when you have it then adding to it is zero time. Once you are in the air it’s smooth sailing. 14:17 – Panel: I guess I can see that. I like to do the dumb-way the first time. I am not clear on the transition. 14:47 – Guest: Write the code, and then write the tests. The guest gives a hypothetical situation on how/when to test in a certain situation. 16:25 – Panel: Can you talk about that more, please? 16:50 – Guest: Don’t have the same unit – do browser and business logic stuff separated. The real business logic stuff needs to be above that level. First principle is separation of concerns. 18:04 – Panel talks about dependency interjection and asks a question. 18:27 – Guest: What I am talking about very, very light inter-dependency interjection. 19:19 – Panel: You have a main function and you are doing requires in the main function. You are passing the pieces of that into the components that need it. 19:44 – Guest: I only do it when it’s necessary; it’s not a religion for me. I do it only for those layers that I know will need to be mocked; like database layers, etc. 20:09 – Panel. 20:19 – Guest: It’s taken me 80 years to figure out, but I have made plenty of mistakes a long the way. A test should run for 2-5 minutes max for package. 20:53 – Panel: What if you have a really messy legacy system? How do you recommend going into that? Do you write tests for things that you think needs to get tested? 21:39 – Guest answers the question and mentions Selenium! 24:27 – Panel: I like that approach. 24:35 – Chuck: When you say integration test what do you mean? 24:44 – Guest: Integration tests aren’t usually talked about. For most people it’s tests that test the database level against the database. For me, the integration tests are taking a set of classes as they are in the application and testing them together w/o the...so they can run in millisecond time. 26:54 – Advertisement – Sentry.io 27:52 – Chuck: How much do the tools matter? 28:01 – Guest: The revolutions matter. Whether you use Jasmine or Mocha or whatever I don’t think it matters. The tests matter not the tools. 28:39 – Aimee: Yes and no. I think some tools are outdated. 28:50 – Guest: I got a lot of flack about my blog where I talk about Cypress versus Selenium. I will never use Jasmine. In the end it’s the 29:29 – Aimee: I am curious would you be willing to expand on what the Selenium folks were saying about Puppeteer and others may not provide? 29:54 – Guest: Cypress was built for frontend developers. They don’t care about cross browser, and they tested in Chrome. Most browsers are typically the same. Selenium was built with the QA mindset – end to end tests that we need to do cross browser. The guest continues with this topic. 30:54 – Aimee mentions Cypress. 31:08 – Guest: My guessing is that their priority is not there. I kind of agree with them. 31:21 – Aimee: I think they are focusing on mobile more. 31:24 – Guest: I think cross browser testing is less of an issue now. There is one area that is important it’s the visual area! It’s important to test visually across these different browsers. 32:32 – Guest: Selenium is a Swiss knife – it can do everything. 33:32 – Chuck: I am thinking about different topics to talk about. I haven’t used Puppeteer. What’s that about? 33:49 – Guest: Puppeteer is much more like Selenium. The reason why it’s great is b/c Puppeteer will always be Google Chrome. 35:42 – Chuck: When should you be running your tests? I like to use some unit tests when I am doing my development but how do you break that down? 36:06 – Guest. 38:30 – Chuck: You run tests against production? 38:45 – Guest: Don’t run tests against production...let me clarify! 39:14 – Chuck. 39:21 – Guest: When I am talking about integration testing in the backend... 40:37 – Chuck asks a question. 40:47 – Guest: I am constantly running between frontend and backend. I didn’t know how to run tests for frontend. I had to invent a new thing and I “invented” the package JS DONG. It’s an implementation of Dong in Node. I found out that I wasn’t the only one and that there were others out there, too. 43:14 – Chuck: Nice! You talked in the prep docs that you urged a new frontend developer to not run the app in the browser for 2 months? 43:25 – Guest: Yeah, I found out that she was running the application...she said she knew how to write tests. I wanted her to see it my way and it probably was a radical train-of-thought, and that was this... 44:40 – Guest: Frontend is so visual. 45:12 – Chuck: What are you working on now? 45:16 – Guest: I am working with Applitools and I was impressed with what they were doing. The guest goes into further detail. 46:08 – Guest: Those screenshots are never the same. 48:36 – Panel: It’s...comparing the output to the static site to the... 48:50 – Guest: Yes, that static site – if you have 30 pages in your app – most of those are the same. We have this trick where we don’t upload it again and again. Uploading the whole static site is usually very quick. The second thing is we don’t wait for the results. We don’t wait for the whole rendering and we continue with the tests. 50:28 – Guest: I am working mostly (right now) in backend. 50:40 – Chuck: Anything else? Picks! 50:57 – Advertisement: Get A Coder Job! END – Advertisement: CacheFly! Links: JavaScript React Elixir Node.js Puppeteer Cypress SeleniumHQ Article – Ideas.Ted.Com Book: Never Split the Difference Applitools Guest’s Blog Article about Cypress vs. Selenium Gil’s Twitter Gil’s Medium Gil’s LinkedIn Sponsors: Kendo UI Sentry CacheFly Picks: Aimee How Showing Vulnerability Helps Build a Stronger Team AJ Never Split the Difference Project - TeleBit Charles Monster Hunter International Metabase Gil Cat Zero The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind
Panel: Aimee Knight AJ O’Neal Charles Max Wood Special Guest: Gil Tayar In this episode, the panel talks with Gil Tayar who is currently residing in Tel Aviv and is a software engineer. He is currently the Senior Architect at Applitools in Israel. The panel and the guest talk about the different types of tests and when/how one is to use a certain test in a particular situation. They also mention Node, React, Selenium, Puppeteer, and much more! Show Topics: 0:00 – Advertisement: KENDO UI 0:35 – Chuck: Our panel is AJ, Aimee, myself – and our special guest is Gil Tayar. Tell us why you are famous! 1:13 – Gil talks about where he resides and his background. 2:27 – Chuck: What is the landscape like now with testing and testing tools now? 2:39 – Guest: There is a huge renaissance with the JavaScript community. Testing has moved forward in the frontend and backend. Today we have lots of testing tools. We can do frontend testing that wasn’t possible 5 years ago. The major change was React. The guest talks about Node, React, tools, and more! 4:17 – Aimee: I advocate for tests and testing. There is a grey area though...how do you treat that? If you have to get something into production, but it’s not THE thing to get into production, does that fall into product or...what? 5:02 – Guest: We decided to test everything in the beginning. We actually cam through and did that and since then I don’t think I can use the right code without testing. There are a lot of different situations, though, to consider. The guest gives hypothetical situations that people could face. 6:27 – Aimee. 6:32 – Guest: The horror to changing code without tests, I don’t know, I haven’t done that for a while. You write with fear in your heart. Your design is driven by fear, and not what you think is right. In the beginning don’t write those tests, but... 7:22 – Aimee: I totally agree and I could go on and on and on. 7:42 – Panel: I want to do tests when I know they will create value. I don’t want to do it b/c it’s a mundane thing. Secondly, I find that some times I am in a situation where I cannot write the test b/c I would have to know the business logic is correct. I am in this discovery mode of what is the business logic? I am not just building your app. I guess I just need advice in this area, I guess. 8:55 – Guest gives advice to panelist’s question. He mentions how there are two schools of thought. 10:20 – Guest: Don’t mock too much. 10:54 – Panel: Are unit tests the easiest? I just reach for unit testing b/c it helps me code faster. But 90% of my code is NOT that. 11:18 – Guest: Exactly! Most of our test is glue – gluing together a bunch of different stuff! Those are best tested as a medium-sized integration suite. 12:39 – Panel: That seems like a lot of work, though! I loathe the database stuff b/c they don’t map cleanly. I hate this database stuff. 13:06 – Guest: I agree, but don’t knock the database, but knock the level above the database. 13:49 – Guest: Yes, it takes time! Building the script and the testing tools, but when you have it then adding to it is zero time. Once you are in the air it’s smooth sailing. 14:17 – Panel: I guess I can see that. I like to do the dumb-way the first time. I am not clear on the transition. 14:47 – Guest: Write the code, and then write the tests. The guest gives a hypothetical situation on how/when to test in a certain situation. 16:25 – Panel: Can you talk about that more, please? 16:50 – Guest: Don’t have the same unit – do browser and business logic stuff separated. The real business logic stuff needs to be above that level. First principle is separation of concerns. 18:04 – Panel talks about dependency interjection and asks a question. 18:27 – Guest: What I am talking about very, very light inter-dependency interjection. 19:19 – Panel: You have a main function and you are doing requires in the main function. You are passing the pieces of that into the components that need it. 19:44 – Guest: I only do it when it’s necessary; it’s not a religion for me. I do it only for those layers that I know will need to be mocked; like database layers, etc. 20:09 – Panel. 20:19 – Guest: It’s taken me 80 years to figure out, but I have made plenty of mistakes a long the way. A test should run for 2-5 minutes max for package. 20:53 – Panel: What if you have a really messy legacy system? How do you recommend going into that? Do you write tests for things that you think needs to get tested? 21:39 – Guest answers the question and mentions Selenium! 24:27 – Panel: I like that approach. 24:35 – Chuck: When you say integration test what do you mean? 24:44 – Guest: Integration tests aren’t usually talked about. For most people it’s tests that test the database level against the database. For me, the integration tests are taking a set of classes as they are in the application and testing them together w/o the...so they can run in millisecond time. 26:54 – Advertisement – Sentry.io 27:52 – Chuck: How much do the tools matter? 28:01 – Guest: The revolutions matter. Whether you use Jasmine or Mocha or whatever I don’t think it matters. The tests matter not the tools. 28:39 – Aimee: Yes and no. I think some tools are outdated. 28:50 – Guest: I got a lot of flack about my blog where I talk about Cypress versus Selenium. I will never use Jasmine. In the end it’s the 29:29 – Aimee: I am curious would you be willing to expand on what the Selenium folks were saying about Puppeteer and others may not provide? 29:54 – Guest: Cypress was built for frontend developers. They don’t care about cross browser, and they tested in Chrome. Most browsers are typically the same. Selenium was built with the QA mindset – end to end tests that we need to do cross browser. The guest continues with this topic. 30:54 – Aimee mentions Cypress. 31:08 – Guest: My guessing is that their priority is not there. I kind of agree with them. 31:21 – Aimee: I think they are focusing on mobile more. 31:24 – Guest: I think cross browser testing is less of an issue now. There is one area that is important it’s the visual area! It’s important to test visually across these different browsers. 32:32 – Guest: Selenium is a Swiss knife – it can do everything. 33:32 – Chuck: I am thinking about different topics to talk about. I haven’t used Puppeteer. What’s that about? 33:49 – Guest: Puppeteer is much more like Selenium. The reason why it’s great is b/c Puppeteer will always be Google Chrome. 35:42 – Chuck: When should you be running your tests? I like to use some unit tests when I am doing my development but how do you break that down? 36:06 – Guest. 38:30 – Chuck: You run tests against production? 38:45 – Guest: Don’t run tests against production...let me clarify! 39:14 – Chuck. 39:21 – Guest: When I am talking about integration testing in the backend... 40:37 – Chuck asks a question. 40:47 – Guest: I am constantly running between frontend and backend. I didn’t know how to run tests for frontend. I had to invent a new thing and I “invented” the package JS DONG. It’s an implementation of Dong in Node. I found out that I wasn’t the only one and that there were others out there, too. 43:14 – Chuck: Nice! You talked in the prep docs that you urged a new frontend developer to not run the app in the browser for 2 months? 43:25 – Guest: Yeah, I found out that she was running the application...she said she knew how to write tests. I wanted her to see it my way and it probably was a radical train-of-thought, and that was this... 44:40 – Guest: Frontend is so visual. 45:12 – Chuck: What are you working on now? 45:16 – Guest: I am working with Applitools and I was impressed with what they were doing. The guest goes into further detail. 46:08 – Guest: Those screenshots are never the same. 48:36 – Panel: It’s...comparing the output to the static site to the... 48:50 – Guest: Yes, that static site – if you have 30 pages in your app – most of those are the same. We have this trick where we don’t upload it again and again. Uploading the whole static site is usually very quick. The second thing is we don’t wait for the results. We don’t wait for the whole rendering and we continue with the tests. 50:28 – Guest: I am working mostly (right now) in backend. 50:40 – Chuck: Anything else? Picks! 50:57 – Advertisement: Get A Coder Job! END – Advertisement: CacheFly! Links: JavaScript React Elixir Node.js Puppeteer Cypress SeleniumHQ Article – Ideas.Ted.Com Book: Never Split the Difference Applitools Guest’s Blog Article about Cypress vs. Selenium Gil’s Twitter Gil’s Medium Gil’s LinkedIn Sponsors: Kendo UI Sentry CacheFly Picks: Aimee How Showing Vulnerability Helps Build a Stronger Team AJ Never Split the Difference Project - TeleBit Charles Monster Hunter International Metabase Gil Cat Zero The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind
Panel: Mark Ericksen Josh Adams Special Guest: Pete Corey In this episode of Elixir Mix, the panel talks with Pete Corey who is a software developer who resides in Denver, CO (USA). He uses Node, React, and Elixir and currently is working on two big projects. Listen to today’s episode to hear the panelists and Pete talk about Elixir, Node, Bitcoin, and Gen_TCP. Check it out! Show Topics: 0:00 – Advertisement: Get A Coder Job! 0:50 – Mark: Welcome! Our panel is Josh Adams and our guest is Pete Corey! Pete, can you tell people about yourself? 1:12 – Guest: I am a software developer and I run a web development consultancy company. I use Node and React, and I use Elixir in my free time, and I blog about that and various projects. 1:38 – Mark: How did you get into Elixir? 1:40 – Guest: Node has its limitations. I found myself not understanding concurrency at all. I saw Elixir and I came around to it when it was around its 1.0 era. I have been hooked ever since. 2:43 – Josh asks a question. 3:00 – Guest. 3:42 – Josh: Yeah it felt like I was putting a s 4:03 – Mark: Letting the mantra of letting it fail or let it crash. How do I recover? You are mentioning about your Node situation that you have these complex situations and how do I get back to a good running state. That’s what I like about Elixir. I’m more concerned: how do I get back to a good running state. It’s a mental shift and I really appreciate it. Instead of worrying about this half, I am focusing more on how do I use it to make it run smoothly? 5:20 – Guest: I totally agree. Learning Elixir has really flipped my mind about developing. I know failure happens – figure it how it fails and then anticipating HOW they might fail to make things easier. In terms of bigger projects... The guest talks about the BIG project he is working on now! Listen here! 7:40 – Panel: That sounds cool! Are you building this by yourself or with other people? 7:54 – Guest: It’s a solo project and I want to keep it that way. I was into Bitcoin before and I bought Mastering Bitcoin. Started working through that – how to go through private keys and things like that. 8:40 – Panel: I think that it’s great that you are SHARING through the process. I think that’s awesome and you are showing what you are learning and the pitfalls and the gains. 9:11 – Guest: It’s been a learning process with pattern matching. 10:20 – Panel. 10:30 – Guest talks about bytes. 10:59 – Panel: One of the first things I did in Elixir was... 11:27 – Guest: ...moving bytes around and moving integers and things like that. Elixir is much nicer! 11:40 – Panel: Can you talk about Gen TCP, please? 11:55 – Guest: A goal of my project tis to dig into the underlining Erlang properties. I think it’s a shame that people don’t explore this. The guest talks about what Gen TCP is! 13:38 – Panel: I like using Gen TCP. 13:54 – Guest: Every problem that I had boiled down to my lack of knowledge. 14:29 – Panel: What do you mean: it worked out better? 14:35 – Guest: My Gen TCP connection would pass to the...the issue is that Gen TCP is a streaming protocol. It might contain multiple packets or 1½ packets, etc. Every time I received some data I would impend it to a buffer and I would look for head eliminators. After that would be the packet length and I would split that number of bytes from the original buffer. That’s hard to explain, but... The guest talks about a solution!! 16:21 – Panel: I think there are a few great points there. One, Erlang has a lot of rich history. What are available through Erlang already? Join the Elixir Slack Channel! 17:34 – Panel: Sounds like you are using property testing? I think that’s cool – I want to spend more time digging into this! What is it? 18:00 – Guest: It is pretty cool and new to me. The guest talks about unit testing and then property testing. 20:20 – Panel: What kind of experience have you had? 20:40 – Fresh Books! 21:48 – Guest: The one place where I am using property testing is... 23:41 – Panel: That’s awesome. I want to get into it more. 23:50 – Guest: Once I get going it falls together pretty easily. It’s hard to come up with the properties that I want to test. 24:11 – Guest: It’s far more eye opening than unit testing. When you have to think about these fundamental properties you see in a different light. 24:33 – Panel: I am dropping in a link to your blog articles that you tagged. Is there anything else you want to say about your project? 24:55 – Guest: It’s an ongoing project. I haven’t actually implemented the meat of the project, yet. Please stay tuned! 25:25 – Panel: Is it your website: petecorey.com? 25:35 – Guest: Yes www.petecorey/blog.com and my newsletter! 25:47 – Panel. 25:55 – Guest asks a question. 26:05 – Panel. 26:12 – Panel: What else to talk about? 26:40 – Guest: There is another project to talk about and it’s about guitar chords and things like that; if you want? 26:57 – Panel: Yeah, generating music with Elixir is simple. I know you did the distance between chords thing? What else is super cool about it? 27:27 – Guest: It programmatically generates these guitar chords. The coolest piece is the algorithm all of guitar fingers for a guitar chord and fret this fret, etc. Then I can take the chord with a specific fingering and measure the distance. 28:30 – Panel: Have you seen Google Wave Net? It’s fairly recent. 28:39 – Guest: Is it related to Google Labs? 28:47 – Panel: I doubt it. 29:18 – Guest: Very cool, but I don’t have the AI chops. 29:26 – Panel. 29:29 – Guest: Yeah it works my brain a bit. 29:40 – Guest: Yeah I play too much guitar. I had enough money to buy my own guitar and amp. 29:54 – Panel: Talk about the chord charts. I was looking for the word: tablature! END – Ad: Lootcrate.com Links: Ruby Elixir Elm Atom.io Flutter.io JavaScript Visual Studio Code React Bitcoin Gen_TCP Stream Data Bitcoin YECC LEEX Music Rustler ElixirWeekly Jsonnet Ksonnet Pete Corey’s Blog Pete Corey’s Twitter Secure Meteor Grafonnet-lib Prometheus-operator The Sparrow Sponsors: Loot Crate Get a Coder Job! Fresh Books Cache Fly Picks: Josh JSonnet KSonnet Grafonnet Prometheus Operator Mark HSTR Pete The Sarrow
Panel: Mark Ericksen Josh Adams Special Guest: Pete Corey In this episode of Elixir Mix, the panel talks with Pete Corey who is a software developer who resides in Denver, CO (USA). He uses Node, React, and Elixir and currently is working on two big projects. Listen to today’s episode to hear the panelists and Pete talk about Elixir, Node, Bitcoin, and Gen_TCP. Check it out! Show Topics: 0:00 – Advertisement: Get A Coder Job! 0:50 – Mark: Welcome! Our panel is Josh Adams and our guest is Pete Corey! Pete, can you tell people about yourself? 1:12 – Guest: I am a software developer and I run a web development consultancy company. I use Node and React, and I use Elixir in my free time, and I blog about that and various projects. 1:38 – Mark: How did you get into Elixir? 1:40 – Guest: Node has its limitations. I found myself not understanding concurrency at all. I saw Elixir and I came around to it when it was around its 1.0 era. I have been hooked ever since. 2:43 – Josh asks a question. 3:00 – Guest. 3:42 – Josh: Yeah it felt like I was putting a s 4:03 – Mark: Letting the mantra of letting it fail or let it crash. How do I recover? You are mentioning about your Node situation that you have these complex situations and how do I get back to a good running state. That’s what I like about Elixir. I’m more concerned: how do I get back to a good running state. It’s a mental shift and I really appreciate it. Instead of worrying about this half, I am focusing more on how do I use it to make it run smoothly? 5:20 – Guest: I totally agree. Learning Elixir has really flipped my mind about developing. I know failure happens – figure it how it fails and then anticipating HOW they might fail to make things easier. In terms of bigger projects... The guest talks about the BIG project he is working on now! Listen here! 7:40 – Panel: That sounds cool! Are you building this by yourself or with other people? 7:54 – Guest: It’s a solo project and I want to keep it that way. I was into Bitcoin before and I bought Mastering Bitcoin. Started working through that – how to go through private keys and things like that. 8:40 – Panel: I think that it’s great that you are SHARING through the process. I think that’s awesome and you are showing what you are learning and the pitfalls and the gains. 9:11 – Guest: It’s been a learning process with pattern matching. 10:20 – Panel. 10:30 – Guest talks about bytes. 10:59 – Panel: One of the first things I did in Elixir was... 11:27 – Guest: ...moving bytes around and moving integers and things like that. Elixir is much nicer! 11:40 – Panel: Can you talk about Gen TCP, please? 11:55 – Guest: A goal of my project tis to dig into the underlining Erlang properties. I think it’s a shame that people don’t explore this. The guest talks about what Gen TCP is! 13:38 – Panel: I like using Gen TCP. 13:54 – Guest: Every problem that I had boiled down to my lack of knowledge. 14:29 – Panel: What do you mean: it worked out better? 14:35 – Guest: My Gen TCP connection would pass to the...the issue is that Gen TCP is a streaming protocol. It might contain multiple packets or 1½ packets, etc. Every time I received some data I would impend it to a buffer and I would look for head eliminators. After that would be the packet length and I would split that number of bytes from the original buffer. That’s hard to explain, but... The guest talks about a solution!! 16:21 – Panel: I think there are a few great points there. One, Erlang has a lot of rich history. What are available through Erlang already? Join the Elixir Slack Channel! 17:34 – Panel: Sounds like you are using property testing? I think that’s cool – I want to spend more time digging into this! What is it? 18:00 – Guest: It is pretty cool and new to me. The guest talks about unit testing and then property testing. 20:20 – Panel: What kind of experience have you had? 20:40 – Fresh Books! 21:48 – Guest: The one place where I am using property testing is... 23:41 – Panel: That’s awesome. I want to get into it more. 23:50 – Guest: Once I get going it falls together pretty easily. It’s hard to come up with the properties that I want to test. 24:11 – Guest: It’s far more eye opening than unit testing. When you have to think about these fundamental properties you see in a different light. 24:33 – Panel: I am dropping in a link to your blog articles that you tagged. Is there anything else you want to say about your project? 24:55 – Guest: It’s an ongoing project. I haven’t actually implemented the meat of the project, yet. Please stay tuned! 25:25 – Panel: Is it your website: petecorey.com? 25:35 – Guest: Yes www.petecorey/blog.com and my newsletter! 25:47 – Panel. 25:55 – Guest asks a question. 26:05 – Panel. 26:12 – Panel: What else to talk about? 26:40 – Guest: There is another project to talk about and it’s about guitar chords and things like that; if you want? 26:57 – Panel: Yeah, generating music with Elixir is simple. I know you did the distance between chords thing? What else is super cool about it? 27:27 – Guest: It programmatically generates these guitar chords. The coolest piece is the algorithm all of guitar fingers for a guitar chord and fret this fret, etc. Then I can take the chord with a specific fingering and measure the distance. 28:30 – Panel: Have you seen Google Wave Net? It’s fairly recent. 28:39 – Guest: Is it related to Google Labs? 28:47 – Panel: I doubt it. 29:18 – Guest: Very cool, but I don’t have the AI chops. 29:26 – Panel. 29:29 – Guest: Yeah it works my brain a bit. 29:40 – Guest: Yeah I play too much guitar. I had enough money to buy my own guitar and amp. 29:54 – Panel: Talk about the chord charts. I was looking for the word: tablature! END – Ad: Lootcrate.com Links: Ruby Elixir Elm Atom.io Flutter.io JavaScript Visual Studio Code React Bitcoin Gen_TCP Stream Data Bitcoin YECC LEEX Music Rustler ElixirWeekly Jsonnet Ksonnet Pete Corey’s Blog Pete Corey’s Twitter Secure Meteor Grafonnet-lib Prometheus-operator The Sparrow Sponsors: Loot Crate Get a Coder Job! Fresh Books Cache Fly Picks: Josh JSonnet KSonnet Grafonnet Prometheus Operator Mark HSTR Pete The Sarrow
Panel: Chris Fritz Eric Hatchet Divya Sasidharan Charles Max Wood Special Guest: Benjamin Hong In this episode, the panel talks with Benjamin Hong who is a Senior Fullstack Engineer at GitLab, Inc. who currently resides in the Washington D.C. metro area. Ben and the panel talk about Politico and the current projects that Ben is working on. The panelists talk about topics, such as Vue, Vuex, VuePress, Nuxt, among others. Check out today’s episode! Show Topics: 0:00 – Advertisement – Kendo UI 0:32 – Panel: Hi! Welcome – our panel today is live at Park City, UT. 1:34 – Benjamin introduces himself. 1:41 – Panel: Politico is a well trafficked website and it’s well known. What are your thoughts about working on a well trafficked website? 2:22 – Guest. 2:44 – Panel: Why did you settle on Vue? 2:50 – Guest: ...I came onto the team and was passionate about helping. We built out the component types. I thought Vue was better suited for the team. 3:36 – Panel: That’s a large team – that’s a lot of people 3:45 – Guest: Yeah, at one time I was writing everything. A lot of people on the team right now didn’t know a lot of JavaScript – but having Vue helps everyone to move the project forward. 4:29 – Panel: They can write just HTML, etc. 4:38 – Guest: Yep, exactly. It helps with communication. 4:55 – Panel asks a question. 5:00 – Guest: I use an event bust. 5:20 – Chuck: Did you have to move from an event bust to Vuex and what was that like? 5:30 – Guest: We had to move into module-esque anyways. 5:42 – Panel: You probably have Vuex with modules and...? 5:54 – Guest: We are using your enterprise broiler plate! 6:05 – Panel: Yeah, every team uses their own patterns. What files would I see used within your team? 6:16 – Guest answers the question. 6:55 – Panel asks a question. 7:01 – Guest: We can keep with the recommended packages fairly well! 7:21 – Panel. 7:26 – Guest: Funny enough at London...we are starting to get a lot with our co-coverage. We have a hard time balancing with unit tests and...eventually we want to look at Cypress. 8:12 – Panel. 8:15 – Guest. 8:19 – Chuck. 8:38 – Panel: I always encourage people to test the unit tests. 9:00 – Chuck: As you adopted Vue what was it like to get buy-in from management. Usually they have a strong backend with Rails, and someone comes in and says let’s use X. How do you sell them on: we are going to use this new technology. 9:30 – Guest: We could really use the user-experience better, and also to offload things from the backend developers. Our desire was to control more things like animation and to specialize those things. That was my selling point. 10:32 – Chuck: I tend to do both on the apps that I’m working on. I told Chris that I was going to switch a lot of things to Vue – some of the things you said I am not interested in the backend b/c it’s too painful. 11:01 – Panel. 11:08 – Chuck: There are things that are really, really good on the backend, but... 11:18 – Panel. 11:24 – Panel: You get the benefits of rendering... 11:43 – Chuck: What are your challenges into Vue? 11:50 – Guest: It’s definitely the scale, because we were a team of 5 and now we are a team of 15. Also, the different time changes b/c we have some people who live in India. Getting that workflow and we are looking at STORYBOOK to help with that. 12:30 – Chuck: Every person you add doubles the complexity of the group. 12:40 – Panel: I think that is conservative! 12:49 – Chuck. 12:56 – Panel: I get to see Chuck in person so this is different! 13:09 – Panel: Challenge accepted! 13:18 – Panel: This is the roast! 13:25 – Panel: Are you working, Benjamin, on a component library? Are you working on that alongside your current project? How do you manage that/ 13:38 – Guest: Unfortunately, we have a lot of deadlines and everything is running in parallel! 14:00 – Panel: How do you implement expectations throughout your team? 14:13 – Panel. 14:16 – Guest: It’s for everyone to understand their own expectations and the team’s expectations. I have to be able to parse it out w/o giving them too much guidance. 15:20 – Panel. 15:25 – Guest: Yep! 15:30 – Panel: ...having to edit the same files and the same lines... 15:36 – Guest: We have been able to keep those in their own lanes! 15:44 – Panel: Yeah that’s no fun – I’ve been there! 15:53 – Chuck: You are working in the development branch – and then their thing breaks my thing, etc. 16:08 – Panel: You are doing dimensional travel! It’s almost like reorganizing a complete novel. 16:30 – Guest: You don’t want your work to drag on too long b/c you don’t want to poorly affect the other team members. 16:53 – Panel: Does that mean you use internal docs to help with the workflow? 17:03 – Guest: Yes, we use the common team board. 17:30 – Panel asks a question. 17:39 – Guest: Yes, that’s a challenge. I have setup an internal product called Politico Academy. 18:29 – Chuck: How do you fit into what Politico is doing? 18:45 – Guest: They are giving out cutting edge information regarding policies and that sort of thing. We have tools like compass to track your notes within the team and also bills. Politico Pro is like for lobbyists and those fees are very expensive. 19:23 – Panel: Do you have to create graphs and D3 and stuff like that? 19:35 – Guest: I am itching to do that and we haven’t really done that, yet. I would love to do that, though! 19:42 – Panel: Chris will be talking about that which will air on YouTube! 20:02 – Panel: Ben, you make decisions based on architecture – do the members of the team get to contribute to that or no? 20:27 – Guest: Yeah, I have a democratic approach. I want people to show their opinion, so that way they know that their voice is getting heard. I don’t make all the decisions, but I do give some guidelines. 21:11 – Chris: I like to time box it. I do the same thing, too. 21:49 – Chuck: Yeah someone would propose something to a new feature (or whatnot) and we would want to see if we want to explore it now or later. 21:55 – Panel goes back-and-forth. 23:26 – Panel: On that note- you want to make sure that each developer has submitted a pole request per day. What is universal in regards to coding practices, and code comments, and stuff like that and code style? 23:55 – Guest: We do PREMIER across the board right now. 24:55 – Panel asks a question. 25:08 – Guest: I like having more...if it can show WHY you did it a certain way. 25:33 – Panel: It’s good not to save the data. 25:40 – Chris: Sometimes a SQUASH can be helpful. 25:50 – Divya: I try to commit often and my work is a work in-progress. 26:08 – Chris. 26:13 – Chuck comments. 26:24 – Panel goes back-and-forth! 26:43 – Guest: They will write their code and then use Prettier and it will look terrifying b/c it’s like what did you just do. I want them to see the 2 lines they changed rather than the whole file. 27:13 – Panelist talks about Linting. 27:34 – Chuck. 27:39 – Chris: If it’s not the default then... 27:55 – Divya: When you manually setup your project you can run a prettier pre-commit. 28:00 – Chris: My pre-commits are much more thorough. 28:37 – Panel goes back-and-forth! 29:26 – Advertisement – Get A Coder Job! 30:02 – Panel: Can you talk about VuePress, please? 30:06 – Guest: Yeah! The guest talks about VuePress in-detail! 31:21 – Chuck. 31:25 – Panel. 31:44 – Chuck: I am curious about this – what’s the difference between VuePress and Nuxt? 31:58 – Guest answers the question. 32:19 – Chris adds his comments into this topic (VuePress and Nuxt). 32:47 – Guest. 33:02 – Divya. 34:24 – Chuck: If they are fluent in English and native in another language and it’s easy to figure where to put everything. 34:41 – Chris: Yeah they have a clear path for to clear up any documentation potential problems. 35:04 – Chris: ...the core docs and the impending libraries and the smaller ones, too. 35:17 – Divya: When you are creating the docs and you are thinking about NTN it’s important to think about the English docs. They say that it’s best to think of the language if that doc was to be translated into another language. 35:50 – Chris: Definition: “A function that returns another function” = higher function. 36:19 – Chuck: We are running out of time, and let’s talk about user-scripts. You have co-organized a group in Washington D.C. I tell people to go to a group to help like Meetups. What do you recommend? 37:00 – Guest: A lot of it is to be that community leader and show-up. To figure out let’s go ahead and meet. I know a lot of people worry about the “venue,” but go to a public library or ask an office for space, that’s an option, too. 38:15 – Panel: We have these different Meetups and right now in my area we don’t have one for Vue. 38:37 – Guest: Yeah, I recommend just getting it going. 39:04 – Chris: Yeah, just forming a community. 39:16 – Chuck: D.C. is a large area, so I can see where the larger market it would be easier. But even for the smaller communities there can be 10 or so people but that’s a great start! 39:48 – Guest: Yeah, once it gets started it flows. 40:02 – Chuck: What are the topics then at these meetings? 40:05 – Guest: I like to help people to code, so that’s my inspiration. 40:50 – Divya: I help with the Chicago Meetup and tons of people sign-up but not a lot of people to show – that’s our challenge right now! How do you get people to actually GO! 41:44 – Guest: I tell people that it’s a free event and really the show up rate is about 30%. I let the people to know that there is a beginning section, too, that there is a safe place for them. I find that that is helpful. 42:44 – Chris: Yeah, even the language/vocabulary that you use can really deter people or make people feel accepted. 43:48 – Chuck: Let’s talk about the idea of ‘new developers.’ They would ask people for the topics that THEY wanted to talk about. 44:37 – Divya: From an organizer’s perspective... 46:10 – Chuck: If you want people to show-up to your Meetups just do this...a secret pattern! I did a talk about a block chain and we probably had 3x to 4x a better turnout. 46:55 – Panel. 47:00 – Divya: The one event that was really successful was having Evan and Chris come to Chicago. That event was eventually $25.00 and then when Evan couldn’t come the price dropped to $5.00. 48:00 – Panel goes back-and-forth. 48:22 – Chuck: Where can they find you? 48:30 – Guest: BenCodeZen! 48:40 – Advertisement – Fresh Books! DEVCHAT code. 30-day trial. Links: Vue React Angular JavaScript DevChat TV Graph QL VuePress Nuxt Meetup 1 Chicago Meetup for Fullstack JavaScript Ben’s LinkedIn Ben’s Website Ben’s Twitter DevChat TV Past Episode with Benjamin Hong (MJS 082) Sponsors: Fresh Books Cache Fly Kendo UI Get A Coder Job! Picks: Divya Creator Summit Chris “Chuck” Take a break when traveling to conferences and such Vue.js in Action Eric Stackblitz Charles The One Thing Self Publishing School Ben Ted Talk by Elizabeth Gilbert Vue.js Meetups
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 background. 2:13 – Guest: I am passionate about Emacs. 2:55 – Chuck. 2:58 – Panel: I have on a few projects. Do you know RUFO? It’s a bit more opinionated than RuboCop. 3:25 – Guest: I am familiar with RUFO and their approach is similar to JavaScript called Pretty or something like that. 4:45 – Guest: 4:49 – Panel: Can you tell us what RuboCop is and why is it important? 5:00 – Guest: There are a few main things that RuboCop is: 1.) Placement for Ruby minor... 2.) Lint tool 3.) Automatic checker for all the best practices outlined in the community 4.) Formatter for Ruby code – you can feed it ugly code and it will spin out beautiful code 7:30 – Panel: What are the origins of the project? Where you interested in the performance and security aspects of it? 7:49 – Guest. The guest talks about RuboCop in detail. 10:59 – Panel: It’s important to remember that these are just guidelines and they are NOT set in stone. Using single or double quotes. As long as the project is consistent and using decent practices then I am okay with the code. I will disable the...in RuboCop. Today with high-resolution monitors it’s one of those things that are an annoyance to me. It’s just my opinion, though. 12:07 – Guest: Why disable it and not...? 13:36 – Panel: You could use VS code instead of Emacs! I am just kidding. 13:51 – Guest: I hope you are kidding! 13:56 – Chuck: I cannot live without this code... 14:06 – Guest. 14:26 – Panel: I was an early adapter from the beginning and it was hella slow. I tried it from sublime text and I got annoyed so I eventually switched to VS code. Once I got over the brand name, I really like it as my main editor. 15:20 – Panel: Maybe it’s more approachable and it’s easier to dip your toes in. 15:35 – Guest. 16:29 – Panel: I haven’t heard of KOMODO in long time. I remember that was one of the first IDs that I had checked out. I tried that then went to Ruby Mine and then tried Sublime text and then VS. 16:57 – Guest: Komodo was a famous editor. 17:17 – Panel: I am curious on RuboCop that the adaption is driven by teaching idiomatic Ruby to people new to the language? 17:40 – Guest: I don’t think it’s much about the stylistic stuff at this point. I also noticed that the main driver of the group was... Guest goes into great detail about this topic. 22:44 – Guest (continues): RuboCop offers a bunch of different structure. 24:27 – Guest (continues): We are wondering how to approach the issue of performance. The performance aspect tended to be trickier than what we had expected. The majority of developers when given the choice to either secure or make something convenient - they will choose the latter option. 25:47 – Panel: That’s why they get hit with a high AWS bill. 26:00 – Guest. 26:30 – Panel: The things you have learned with RuboCop, is it changing the direction with MRI or the design of the language at all? 26:40 – Guest: I would hope so, but I don’t have hard evidence to prove this. If you give people too many options then it could be a waste of time. I don’t care about the nuances. 30:06 – Ad: RubyMine! 30-day trial! 30:38 – Panel: Would you recommend the Rails style guide if you are building a Rails style project? Should we use that as a baseline and then customize it for your team? 30:55 – Guest: The style guide should be good. For a while I was the only editor. Not a lot of the options that are there aren’t my personal opinion, but it’s the general prescription. If you have strong preferences and you have your team agree on those then it’s okay to be modifying it. At the end of the day it’s better to have consistency within a project. You are doing great! 32:57 – Chuck asks a question. 33:44 – Chuck: Could I modify a rule? 33:53 – Guest: There are varying degrees to the rule. 35:56 – Panel: One of your conference talks you talked about the future of Rails and the future of other Ruby frameworks? 36:18 – Guest: I am worried about the future of Ruby b/c I see people talking about the maturity of the system but there isn’t a clear vision to where we are going. There are some cornerstones for Ruby 3 that he is repeating. 41:05 – Guest (continues): I think we need to commit to the module and the API. 45:42 – Chuck: All of those things make sense to me. Is there any desire for people to fork Ruby or pulling / putting some of this in? 46:00 – Guest. 48:18 – Panel: Transition that to Rails and the future of Rails? 48:27 – Panel: There are big companies that are making changes. 48:51 – Guest. 53:33 – Panel: I think that is a common pattern that most companies move towards. 54:12 – Chuck: We did an episode on ElixirMix with Chris McCord. Check that out! 54:35 – Chuck: Picks! 54:40 – Advertisement – Fresh Books! End – Cache Fly! Links: Get a Coder Job Course Ruby Rust Ruby Motion Ruby on Rails Angular Komodo Emacs RuboCop RuboCop – GitHub Stimulus reflex Messages: Share Screens Smittybilt Visual Studio Code: Introducing Visual Studio Live Share VRBO Bozhidar’s GitHub Bozhidar’s Twitter Bozhidar’s Patreon Bozhidar’s Open Collective Past EMx Episode 020 with Chris McCord! Sponsors: Sentry RubyMine Cache Fly Fresh Books Picks: Dave Tire Plugs VS Live Share Nate Share Screen using Messages on Mac Charles VRBO Find opportunities for R&R Rocket League Bozhidar Documentation for Markdown users Bear App
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 background. 2:13 – Guest: I am passionate about Emacs. 2:55 – Chuck. 2:58 – Panel: I have on a few projects. Do you know RUFO? It’s a bit more opinionated than RuboCop. 3:25 – Guest: I am familiar with RUFO and their approach is similar to JavaScript called Pretty or something like that. 4:45 – Guest: 4:49 – Panel: Can you tell us what RuboCop is and why is it important? 5:00 – Guest: There are a few main things that RuboCop is: 1.) Placement for Ruby minor... 2.) Lint tool 3.) Automatic checker for all the best practices outlined in the community 4.) Formatter for Ruby code – you can feed it ugly code and it will spin out beautiful code 7:30 – Panel: What are the origins of the project? Where you interested in the performance and security aspects of it? 7:49 – Guest. The guest talks about RuboCop in detail. 10:59 – Panel: It’s important to remember that these are just guidelines and they are NOT set in stone. Using single or double quotes. As long as the project is consistent and using decent practices then I am okay with the code. I will disable the...in RuboCop. Today with high-resolution monitors it’s one of those things that are an annoyance to me. It’s just my opinion, though. 12:07 – Guest: Why disable it and not...? 13:36 – Panel: You could use VS code instead of Emacs! I am just kidding. 13:51 – Guest: I hope you are kidding! 13:56 – Chuck: I cannot live without this code... 14:06 – Guest. 14:26 – Panel: I was an early adapter from the beginning and it was hella slow. I tried it from sublime text and I got annoyed so I eventually switched to VS code. Once I got over the brand name, I really like it as my main editor. 15:20 – Panel: Maybe it’s more approachable and it’s easier to dip your toes in. 15:35 – Guest. 16:29 – Panel: I haven’t heard of KOMODO in long time. I remember that was one of the first IDs that I had checked out. I tried that then went to Ruby Mine and then tried Sublime text and then VS. 16:57 – Guest: Komodo was a famous editor. 17:17 – Panel: I am curious on RuboCop that the adaption is driven by teaching idiomatic Ruby to people new to the language? 17:40 – Guest: I don’t think it’s much about the stylistic stuff at this point. I also noticed that the main driver of the group was... Guest goes into great detail about this topic. 22:44 – Guest (continues): RuboCop offers a bunch of different structure. 24:27 – Guest (continues): We are wondering how to approach the issue of performance. The performance aspect tended to be trickier than what we had expected. The majority of developers when given the choice to either secure or make something convenient - they will choose the latter option. 25:47 – Panel: That’s why they get hit with a high AWS bill. 26:00 – Guest. 26:30 – Panel: The things you have learned with RuboCop, is it changing the direction with MRI or the design of the language at all? 26:40 – Guest: I would hope so, but I don’t have hard evidence to prove this. If you give people too many options then it could be a waste of time. I don’t care about the nuances. 30:06 – Ad: RubyMine! 30-day trial! 30:38 – Panel: Would you recommend the Rails style guide if you are building a Rails style project? Should we use that as a baseline and then customize it for your team? 30:55 – Guest: The style guide should be good. For a while I was the only editor. Not a lot of the options that are there aren’t my personal opinion, but it’s the general prescription. If you have strong preferences and you have your team agree on those then it’s okay to be modifying it. At the end of the day it’s better to have consistency within a project. You are doing great! 32:57 – Chuck asks a question. 33:44 – Chuck: Could I modify a rule? 33:53 – Guest: There are varying degrees to the rule. 35:56 – Panel: One of your conference talks you talked about the future of Rails and the future of other Ruby frameworks? 36:18 – Guest: I am worried about the future of Ruby b/c I see people talking about the maturity of the system but there isn’t a clear vision to where we are going. There are some cornerstones for Ruby 3 that he is repeating. 41:05 – Guest (continues): I think we need to commit to the module and the API. 45:42 – Chuck: All of those things make sense to me. Is there any desire for people to fork Ruby or pulling / putting some of this in? 46:00 – Guest. 48:18 – Panel: Transition that to Rails and the future of Rails? 48:27 – Panel: There are big companies that are making changes. 48:51 – Guest. 53:33 – Panel: I think that is a common pattern that most companies move towards. 54:12 – Chuck: We did an episode on ElixirMix with Chris McCord. Check that out! 54:35 – Chuck: Picks! 54:40 – Advertisement – Fresh Books! End – Cache Fly! Links: Get a Coder Job Course Ruby Rust Ruby Motion Ruby on Rails Angular Komodo Emacs RuboCop RuboCop – GitHub Stimulus reflex Messages: Share Screens Smittybilt Visual Studio Code: Introducing Visual Studio Live Share VRBO Bozhidar’s GitHub Bozhidar’s Twitter Bozhidar’s Patreon Bozhidar’s Open Collective Past EMx Episode 020 with Chris McCord! Sponsors: Sentry RubyMine Cache Fly Fresh Books Picks: Dave Tire Plugs VS Live Share Nate Share Screen using Messages on Mac Charles VRBO Find opportunities for R&R Rocket League Bozhidar Documentation for Markdown users Bear App
Panel: Chris Fritz Eric Hatchet Divya Sasidharan Charles Max Wood Special Guest: Benjamin Hong In this episode, the panel talks with Benjamin Hong who is a Senior Fullstack Engineer at GitLab, Inc. who currently resides in the Washington D.C. metro area. Ben and the panel talk about Politico and the current projects that Ben is working on. The panelists talk about topics, such as Vue, Vuex, VuePress, Nuxt, among others. Check out today’s episode! Show Topics: 0:00 – Advertisement – Kendo UI 0:32 – Panel: Hi! Welcome – our panel today is live at Park City, UT. 1:34 – Benjamin introduces himself. 1:41 – Panel: Politico is a well trafficked website and it’s well known. What are your thoughts about working on a well trafficked website? 2:22 – Guest. 2:44 – Panel: Why did you settle on Vue? 2:50 – Guest: ...I came onto the team and was passionate about helping. We built out the component types. I thought Vue was better suited for the team. 3:36 – Panel: That’s a large team – that’s a lot of people 3:45 – Guest: Yeah, at one time I was writing everything. A lot of people on the team right now didn’t know a lot of JavaScript – but having Vue helps everyone to move the project forward. 4:29 – Panel: They can write just HTML, etc. 4:38 – Guest: Yep, exactly. It helps with communication. 4:55 – Panel asks a question. 5:00 – Guest: I use an event bust. 5:20 – Chuck: Did you have to move from an event bust to Vuex and what was that like? 5:30 – Guest: We had to move into module-esque anyways. 5:42 – Panel: You probably have Vuex with modules and...? 5:54 – Guest: We are using your enterprise broiler plate! 6:05 – Panel: Yeah, every team uses their own patterns. What files would I see used within your team? 6:16 – Guest answers the question. 6:55 – Panel asks a question. 7:01 – Guest: We can keep with the recommended packages fairly well! 7:21 – Panel. 7:26 – Guest: Funny enough at London...we are starting to get a lot with our co-coverage. We have a hard time balancing with unit tests and...eventually we want to look at Cypress. 8:12 – Panel. 8:15 – Guest. 8:19 – Chuck. 8:38 – Panel: I always encourage people to test the unit tests. 9:00 – Chuck: As you adopted Vue what was it like to get buy-in from management. Usually they have a strong backend with Rails, and someone comes in and says let’s use X. How do you sell them on: we are going to use this new technology. 9:30 – Guest: We could really use the user-experience better, and also to offload things from the backend developers. Our desire was to control more things like animation and to specialize those things. That was my selling point. 10:32 – Chuck: I tend to do both on the apps that I’m working on. I told Chris that I was going to switch a lot of things to Vue – some of the things you said I am not interested in the backend b/c it’s too painful. 11:01 – Panel. 11:08 – Chuck: There are things that are really, really good on the backend, but... 11:18 – Panel. 11:24 – Panel: You get the benefits of rendering... 11:43 – Chuck: What are your challenges into Vue? 11:50 – Guest: It’s definitely the scale, because we were a team of 5 and now we are a team of 15. Also, the different time changes b/c we have some people who live in India. Getting that workflow and we are looking at STORYBOOK to help with that. 12:30 – Chuck: Every person you add doubles the complexity of the group. 12:40 – Panel: I think that is conservative! 12:49 – Chuck. 12:56 – Panel: I get to see Chuck in person so this is different! 13:09 – Panel: Challenge accepted! 13:18 – Panel: This is the roast! 13:25 – Panel: Are you working, Benjamin, on a component library? Are you working on that alongside your current project? How do you manage that/ 13:38 – Guest: Unfortunately, we have a lot of deadlines and everything is running in parallel! 14:00 – Panel: How do you implement expectations throughout your team? 14:13 – Panel. 14:16 – Guest: It’s for everyone to understand their own expectations and the team’s expectations. I have to be able to parse it out w/o giving them too much guidance. 15:20 – Panel. 15:25 – Guest: Yep! 15:30 – Panel: ...having to edit the same files and the same lines... 15:36 – Guest: We have been able to keep those in their own lanes! 15:44 – Panel: Yeah that’s no fun – I’ve been there! 15:53 – Chuck: You are working in the development branch – and then their thing breaks my thing, etc. 16:08 – Panel: You are doing dimensional travel! It’s almost like reorganizing a complete novel. 16:30 – Guest: You don’t want your work to drag on too long b/c you don’t want to poorly affect the other team members. 16:53 – Panel: Does that mean you use internal docs to help with the workflow? 17:03 – Guest: Yes, we use the common team board. 17:30 – Panel asks a question. 17:39 – Guest: Yes, that’s a challenge. I have setup an internal product called Politico Academy. 18:29 – Chuck: How do you fit into what Politico is doing? 18:45 – Guest: They are giving out cutting edge information regarding policies and that sort of thing. We have tools like compass to track your notes within the team and also bills. Politico Pro is like for lobbyists and those fees are very expensive. 19:23 – Panel: Do you have to create graphs and D3 and stuff like that? 19:35 – Guest: I am itching to do that and we haven’t really done that, yet. I would love to do that, though! 19:42 – Panel: Chris will be talking about that which will air on YouTube! 20:02 – Panel: Ben, you make decisions based on architecture – do the members of the team get to contribute to that or no? 20:27 – Guest: Yeah, I have a democratic approach. I want people to show their opinion, so that way they know that their voice is getting heard. I don’t make all the decisions, but I do give some guidelines. 21:11 – Chris: I like to time box it. I do the same thing, too. 21:49 – Chuck: Yeah someone would propose something to a new feature (or whatnot) and we would want to see if we want to explore it now or later. 21:55 – Panel goes back-and-forth. 23:26 – Panel: On that note- you want to make sure that each developer has submitted a pole request per day. What is universal in regards to coding practices, and code comments, and stuff like that and code style? 23:55 – Guest: We do PREMIER across the board right now. 24:55 – Panel asks a question. 25:08 – Guest: I like having more...if it can show WHY you did it a certain way. 25:33 – Panel: It’s good not to save the data. 25:40 – Chris: Sometimes a SQUASH can be helpful. 25:50 – Divya: I try to commit often and my work is a work in-progress. 26:08 – Chris. 26:13 – Chuck comments. 26:24 – Panel goes back-and-forth! 26:43 – Guest: They will write their code and then use Prettier and it will look terrifying b/c it’s like what did you just do. I want them to see the 2 lines they changed rather than the whole file. 27:13 – Panelist talks about Linting. 27:34 – Chuck. 27:39 – Chris: If it’s not the default then... 27:55 – Divya: When you manually setup your project you can run a prettier pre-commit. 28:00 – Chris: My pre-commits are much more thorough. 28:37 – Panel goes back-and-forth! 29:26 – Advertisement – Get A Coder Job! 30:02 – Panel: Can you talk about VuePress, please? 30:06 – Guest: Yeah! The guest talks about VuePress in-detail! 31:21 – Chuck. 31:25 – Panel. 31:44 – Chuck: I am curious about this – what’s the difference between VuePress and Nuxt? 31:58 – Guest answers the question. 32:19 – Chris adds his comments into this topic (VuePress and Nuxt). 32:47 – Guest. 33:02 – Divya. 34:24 – Chuck: If they are fluent in English and native in another language and it’s easy to figure where to put everything. 34:41 – Chris: Yeah they have a clear path for to clear up any documentation potential problems. 35:04 – Chris: ...the core docs and the impending libraries and the smaller ones, too. 35:17 – Divya: When you are creating the docs and you are thinking about NTN it’s important to think about the English docs. They say that it’s best to think of the language if that doc was to be translated into another language. 35:50 – Chris: Definition: “A function that returns another function” = higher function. 36:19 – Chuck: We are running out of time, and let’s talk about user-scripts. You have co-organized a group in Washington D.C. I tell people to go to a group to help like Meetups. What do you recommend? 37:00 – Guest: A lot of it is to be that community leader and show-up. To figure out let’s go ahead and meet. I know a lot of people worry about the “venue,” but go to a public library or ask an office for space, that’s an option, too. 38:15 – Panel: We have these different Meetups and right now in my area we don’t have one for Vue. 38:37 – Guest: Yeah, I recommend just getting it going. 39:04 – Chris: Yeah, just forming a community. 39:16 – Chuck: D.C. is a large area, so I can see where the larger market it would be easier. But even for the smaller communities there can be 10 or so people but that’s a great start! 39:48 – Guest: Yeah, once it gets started it flows. 40:02 – Chuck: What are the topics then at these meetings? 40:05 – Guest: I like to help people to code, so that’s my inspiration. 40:50 – Divya: I help with the Chicago Meetup and tons of people sign-up but not a lot of people to show – that’s our challenge right now! How do you get people to actually GO! 41:44 – Guest: I tell people that it’s a free event and really the show up rate is about 30%. I let the people to know that there is a beginning section, too, that there is a safe place for them. I find that that is helpful. 42:44 – Chris: Yeah, even the language/vocabulary that you use can really deter people or make people feel accepted. 43:48 – Chuck: Let’s talk about the idea of ‘new developers.’ They would ask people for the topics that THEY wanted to talk about. 44:37 – Divya: From an organizer’s perspective... 46:10 – Chuck: If you want people to show-up to your Meetups just do this...a secret pattern! I did a talk about a block chain and we probably had 3x to 4x a better turnout. 46:55 – Panel. 47:00 – Divya: The one event that was really successful was having Evan and Chris come to Chicago. That event was eventually $25.00 and then when Evan couldn’t come the price dropped to $5.00. 48:00 – Panel goes back-and-forth. 48:22 – Chuck: Where can they find you? 48:30 – Guest: BenCodeZen! 48:40 – Advertisement – Fresh Books! DEVCHAT code. 30-day trial. Links: Vue React Angular JavaScript DevChat TV Graph QL VuePress Nuxt Meetup 1 Chicago Meetup for Fullstack JavaScript Ben’s LinkedIn Ben’s Website Ben’s Twitter DevChat TV Past Episode with Benjamin Hong (MJS 082) Sponsors: Fresh Books Cache Fly Kendo UI Get A Coder Job! Picks: Divya Creator Summit Chris “Chuck” Take a break when traveling to conferences and such Vue.js in Action Eric Stackblitz Charles The One Thing Self Publishing School Ben Ted Talk by Elizabeth Gilbert Vue.js Meetups
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 background. 2:13 – Guest: I am passionate about Emacs. 2:55 – Chuck. 2:58 – Panel: I have on a few projects. Do you know RUFO? It’s a bit more opinionated than RuboCop. 3:25 – Guest: I am familiar with RUFO and their approach is similar to JavaScript called Pretty or something like that. 4:45 – Guest: 4:49 – Panel: Can you tell us what RuboCop is and why is it important? 5:00 – Guest: There are a few main things that RuboCop is: 1.) Placement for Ruby minor... 2.) Lint tool 3.) Automatic checker for all the best practices outlined in the community 4.) Formatter for Ruby code – you can feed it ugly code and it will spin out beautiful code 7:30 – Panel: What are the origins of the project? Where you interested in the performance and security aspects of it? 7:49 – Guest. The guest talks about RuboCop in detail. 10:59 – Panel: It’s important to remember that these are just guidelines and they are NOT set in stone. Using single or double quotes. As long as the project is consistent and using decent practices then I am okay with the code. I will disable the...in RuboCop. Today with high-resolution monitors it’s one of those things that are an annoyance to me. It’s just my opinion, though. 12:07 – Guest: Why disable it and not...? 13:36 – Panel: You could use VS code instead of Emacs! I am just kidding. 13:51 – Guest: I hope you are kidding! 13:56 – Chuck: I cannot live without this code... 14:06 – Guest. 14:26 – Panel: I was an early adapter from the beginning and it was hella slow. I tried it from sublime text and I got annoyed so I eventually switched to VS code. Once I got over the brand name, I really like it as my main editor. 15:20 – Panel: Maybe it’s more approachable and it’s easier to dip your toes in. 15:35 – Guest. 16:29 – Panel: I haven’t heard of KOMODO in long time. I remember that was one of the first IDs that I had checked out. I tried that then went to Ruby Mine and then tried Sublime text and then VS. 16:57 – Guest: Komodo was a famous editor. 17:17 – Panel: I am curious on RuboCop that the adaption is driven by teaching idiomatic Ruby to people new to the language? 17:40 – Guest: I don’t think it’s much about the stylistic stuff at this point. I also noticed that the main driver of the group was... Guest goes into great detail about this topic. 22:44 – Guest (continues): RuboCop offers a bunch of different structure. 24:27 – Guest (continues): We are wondering how to approach the issue of performance. The performance aspect tended to be trickier than what we had expected. The majority of developers when given the choice to either secure or make something convenient - they will choose the latter option. 25:47 – Panel: That’s why they get hit with a high AWS bill. 26:00 – Guest. 26:30 – Panel: The things you have learned with RuboCop, is it changing the direction with MRI or the design of the language at all? 26:40 – Guest: I would hope so, but I don’t have hard evidence to prove this. If you give people too many options then it could be a waste of time. I don’t care about the nuances. 30:06 – Ad: RubyMine! 30-day trial! 30:38 – Panel: Would you recommend the Rails style guide if you are building a Rails style project? Should we use that as a baseline and then customize it for your team? 30:55 – Guest: The style guide should be good. For a while I was the only editor. Not a lot of the options that are there aren’t my personal opinion, but it’s the general prescription. If you have strong preferences and you have your team agree on those then it’s okay to be modifying it. At the end of the day it’s better to have consistency within a project. You are doing great! 32:57 – Chuck asks a question. 33:44 – Chuck: Could I modify a rule? 33:53 – Guest: There are varying degrees to the rule. 35:56 – Panel: One of your conference talks you talked about the future of Rails and the future of other Ruby frameworks? 36:18 – Guest: I am worried about the future of Ruby b/c I see people talking about the maturity of the system but there isn’t a clear vision to where we are going. There are some cornerstones for Ruby 3 that he is repeating. 41:05 – Guest (continues): I think we need to commit to the module and the API. 45:42 – Chuck: All of those things make sense to me. Is there any desire for people to fork Ruby or pulling / putting some of this in? 46:00 – Guest. 48:18 – Panel: Transition that to Rails and the future of Rails? 48:27 – Panel: There are big companies that are making changes. 48:51 – Guest. 53:33 – Panel: I think that is a common pattern that most companies move towards. 54:12 – Chuck: We did an episode on ElixirMix with Chris McCord. Check that out! 54:35 – Chuck: Picks! 54:40 – Advertisement – Fresh Books! End – Cache Fly! Links: Get a Coder Job Course Ruby Rust Ruby Motion Ruby on Rails Angular Komodo Emacs RuboCop RuboCop – GitHub Stimulus reflex Messages: Share Screens Smittybilt Visual Studio Code: Introducing Visual Studio Live Share VRBO Bozhidar’s GitHub Bozhidar’s Twitter Bozhidar’s Patreon Bozhidar’s Open Collective Past EMx Episode 020 with Chris McCord! Sponsors: Sentry RubyMine Cache Fly Fresh Books Picks: Dave Tire Plugs VS Live Share Nate Share Screen using Messages on Mac Charles VRBO Find opportunities for R&R Rocket League Bozhidar Documentation for Markdown users Bear App
Panel: Aimee Knight AJ O’Neal Aaron Frost Christopher Ferdinandi Special Guests: Christopher Buecheler In this episode, the panel talks with Christopher Buecheler who is an author, blogger, web developer, and founder of CloseBrace. The panel and Christopher talk about stepping outside of your comfort zone. With a technological world that is ever changing, it is important to always be learning within your field. Check out today’s episode to learn more! Show Topics: 0:00 – Advertisement: KENDO UI 1:08 – Aimee: Our guest is Christopher Buecheler – tell us about yourself and what you do. 1:22 – Guest: I run a site and help mid-career developers. I put out a weekly newsletter, too. 2:01 – Aimee: It says that you are a fan of “getting comfortable being uncomfortable”? 2:15 – Guest: I am a self-taught developer, so that means I am scrambling to learn new things all the time. You are often faced with learning new things. When I learned React I was dumped into it. The pain and the difficulty are necessary in order to improve. If you aren’t having that experience then you aren’t learning as much as you could be. 3:26 – Aimee: I borrow lessons that I learned from ice-skating to programming. 3:49 – Guest: I started running a few years ago for better health. It was exhausting and miserable at the start and wondered why I was doing it. Now I run 5 times a week, and there is always a level of being uncomfortable, but now it’s apart of the run. It’s an interesting comparison to coding. It’s this idea of pushing through. 5:01 – Aimee: If you are comfortable you probably aren’t growing that much. In our industry you always have to be learning because things change so much! 5:25 – Guest: Yes, exactly. If you are not careful you can miss opportunities. 6:33 – Panel: You have some ideas about frameworks and libraries – one thing that I am always anxious about is being able to make sense of “what are some new trends that I should pay attention to?” I remember interviewing with someone saying: this mobile thing is just a fad. I remember thinking that she is going to miss this opportunity. I am worried that I am going to be THAT guy. How do you figure out what sort of things you should / shouldn’t pay attention to? 7:47 – Guest: It is a super exhausting thing to keep up with – I agree. For me, a lot of what I pay attention to is the technology that has the backing of a multi-million dollar company then that shows that technology isn’t going anywhere, anytime soon. The other thing I would look at is how ACTIVE is the community around it? 9:15 – Panel: Is there a strategic way to approach this? There is so many different directions that you can grow and push yourself within your career? Do you have any kinds of thoughts/tips on how you want your career to evolve? 10:00 – Guest: I am trying to always communicate better to my newsletter audience. Also, a good approach, too, is what are people hiring for? 11:06 – Aimee: Again, I would say: focus on learning. 11:30 – Panel: And I agree with Aimee – “learn it and learn it well!” 12:01 – Panel: I want to ask Chris – what is CloseBrace? 12:17 – Guest: I founded it in November 2016, and started work on it back in 2013. 14:20 – Panel: It was filled with a bunch of buzz worthy words/title. 14:32 – Guest continues his thoughts/comments on CloseBrace. 16:54 – Panel: How is the growth going? 17:00 – Guest: It is growing very well. I put out a massive, massive tutorial course – I wouldn’t necessarily advice that people do this b/c it can be overwhelming. However, growth this year I have focused on marketing. I haven’t shared numbers or anything but it’s increased 500%, and I am happy about it. 18:05 – Panel: Are you keeping in-house? 18:13 – Guest: I think it would be cool to expand, but now it is in-house. I don’t want to borrow Egg Head’s setup. I would love to cover MORE topics, though. 19:05 – Panel: You are only one person. 19:08 – Guest: If I can get the site creating more revenue than I can hire someone to do video editing, etc. 19:35 – Panel: I think you are overthinking it. 19:45 – Guest. 19:47 – Advertisement – Sentry.io 20:47 – Guest. 21:30 – Aimee: There are SO many resources out there right now. Where do you think you fit into this landscape? 21:44 – The landscape is cluttered, but I feel that I am different b/c of my thoroughness. I don’t always explain line by line, but I do say how and why things work. I think also is my VOICE. Not my radio voice, but the tone and the approach you take with it. 23:25 – Panel: I was trying to copy folks in the beginning of my career. And at some point I realized that I needed to find my own style. It always came down to the reasons WHY I am different rather than the similarities. Like, Chris, you have these quick hits on CloseBrace, but some people might feel like they don’t have the time to get through ALL of your content, because it’s a lot. For me, that’s what I love about your content. 24:46 – Christopher: Yeah, it was intentional. 25:36 – Panel: Good for you. 25:49 – Guest: I am super device agnostic: Android, Mac, PC, etc. I have a lot of people from India that are more Microsoft-base. 26:28 – Aimee: I think Egghead is pretty good about this...do you cover testing at all with these things that you are doing? It’s good to do a “Hello World” but most of these sites don’t get into MORE complex pieces. I think that’s where you can get into trouble. It’s nice to have some boiler point testing, too. 27:18 – Guest answers Aimee’s question. 28:43 – Aimee: We work with a consultancy and I asked them to write tests for the things that we work with. That’s the value of the testing. It’s the code that comes out. 29:10 – Panel: Can you explain this to me. Why do I need to write tests? It’s always working (my code) so why do I have to write a test? 29:39 – Guest: When working with AWS I was writing... 31:01 – Aimee: My biggest thing is that I have seen enough that the people don’t value testing are in a very bad place, and the people that value testing are in a good place. It even comes back to the customers, because the code gets so hard that you end up repeatedly releasing bugs. Customers will stop paying their bills if this happens too often for them. 33:00 – Panel: Aimee / Chris do you have a preferred tool? I have done testing before, but not as much as I should be doing. 33:25 – Aimee: I like JEST and PUPPETEER. 33:58 – Guest: I like JEST, too. 34:20 – Aimee: Let’s go to PICKS! 34:35 – Advertisement – eBook: Get a coder job! Links: JavaScript jQuery React Elixir Elm Vue JEST Puppeteer Podflix Autojump Brutalist Web Design YouTube: Mac Miller Balloon Fiesta DocZ CloseBrace Christopher Buecheler’s Website Christopher Buecheler’s LinkedIn Christopher Buecheler’s GitHub Go Learn Things – Chris Ferdinandi Sponsors: Kendo UI Sentry Cache Fly Get a Coder Job Picks: Aimee Podflix Chris F. AutoJump Brutalist Web Design Mac Miller Tiny Desk Concert AJ Canada Dry with Lemonade Aaron ABQ Ballon Festival Joe Eames DND Recording Channel Christopher Docz South Reach Trilogy Jeff Vandermeer
Panel: Aimee Knight AJ O’Neal Aaron Frost Christopher Ferdinandi Special Guests: Christopher Buecheler In this episode, the panel talks with Christopher Buecheler who is an author, blogger, web developer, and founder of CloseBrace. The panel and Christopher talk about stepping outside of your comfort zone. With a technological world that is ever changing, it is important to always be learning within your field. Check out today’s episode to learn more! Show Topics: 0:00 – Advertisement: KENDO UI 1:08 – Aimee: Our guest is Christopher Buecheler – tell us about yourself and what you do. 1:22 – Guest: I run a site and help mid-career developers. I put out a weekly newsletter, too. 2:01 – Aimee: It says that you are a fan of “getting comfortable being uncomfortable”? 2:15 – Guest: I am a self-taught developer, so that means I am scrambling to learn new things all the time. You are often faced with learning new things. When I learned React I was dumped into it. The pain and the difficulty are necessary in order to improve. If you aren’t having that experience then you aren’t learning as much as you could be. 3:26 – Aimee: I borrow lessons that I learned from ice-skating to programming. 3:49 – Guest: I started running a few years ago for better health. It was exhausting and miserable at the start and wondered why I was doing it. Now I run 5 times a week, and there is always a level of being uncomfortable, but now it’s apart of the run. It’s an interesting comparison to coding. It’s this idea of pushing through. 5:01 – Aimee: If you are comfortable you probably aren’t growing that much. In our industry you always have to be learning because things change so much! 5:25 – Guest: Yes, exactly. If you are not careful you can miss opportunities. 6:33 – Panel: You have some ideas about frameworks and libraries – one thing that I am always anxious about is being able to make sense of “what are some new trends that I should pay attention to?” I remember interviewing with someone saying: this mobile thing is just a fad. I remember thinking that she is going to miss this opportunity. I am worried that I am going to be THAT guy. How do you figure out what sort of things you should / shouldn’t pay attention to? 7:47 – Guest: It is a super exhausting thing to keep up with – I agree. For me, a lot of what I pay attention to is the technology that has the backing of a multi-million dollar company then that shows that technology isn’t going anywhere, anytime soon. The other thing I would look at is how ACTIVE is the community around it? 9:15 – Panel: Is there a strategic way to approach this? There is so many different directions that you can grow and push yourself within your career? Do you have any kinds of thoughts/tips on how you want your career to evolve? 10:00 – Guest: I am trying to always communicate better to my newsletter audience. Also, a good approach, too, is what are people hiring for? 11:06 – Aimee: Again, I would say: focus on learning. 11:30 – Panel: And I agree with Aimee – “learn it and learn it well!” 12:01 – Panel: I want to ask Chris – what is CloseBrace? 12:17 – Guest: I founded it in November 2016, and started work on it back in 2013. 14:20 – Panel: It was filled with a bunch of buzz worthy words/title. 14:32 – Guest continues his thoughts/comments on CloseBrace. 16:54 – Panel: How is the growth going? 17:00 – Guest: It is growing very well. I put out a massive, massive tutorial course – I wouldn’t necessarily advice that people do this b/c it can be overwhelming. However, growth this year I have focused on marketing. I haven’t shared numbers or anything but it’s increased 500%, and I am happy about it. 18:05 – Panel: Are you keeping in-house? 18:13 – Guest: I think it would be cool to expand, but now it is in-house. I don’t want to borrow Egg Head’s setup. I would love to cover MORE topics, though. 19:05 – Panel: You are only one person. 19:08 – Guest: If I can get the site creating more revenue than I can hire someone to do video editing, etc. 19:35 – Panel: I think you are overthinking it. 19:45 – Guest. 19:47 – Advertisement – Sentry.io 20:47 – Guest. 21:30 – Aimee: There are SO many resources out there right now. Where do you think you fit into this landscape? 21:44 – The landscape is cluttered, but I feel that I am different b/c of my thoroughness. I don’t always explain line by line, but I do say how and why things work. I think also is my VOICE. Not my radio voice, but the tone and the approach you take with it. 23:25 – Panel: I was trying to copy folks in the beginning of my career. And at some point I realized that I needed to find my own style. It always came down to the reasons WHY I am different rather than the similarities. Like, Chris, you have these quick hits on CloseBrace, but some people might feel like they don’t have the time to get through ALL of your content, because it’s a lot. For me, that’s what I love about your content. 24:46 – Christopher: Yeah, it was intentional. 25:36 – Panel: Good for you. 25:49 – Guest: I am super device agnostic: Android, Mac, PC, etc. I have a lot of people from India that are more Microsoft-base. 26:28 – Aimee: I think Egghead is pretty good about this...do you cover testing at all with these things that you are doing? It’s good to do a “Hello World” but most of these sites don’t get into MORE complex pieces. I think that’s where you can get into trouble. It’s nice to have some boiler point testing, too. 27:18 – Guest answers Aimee’s question. 28:43 – Aimee: We work with a consultancy and I asked them to write tests for the things that we work with. That’s the value of the testing. It’s the code that comes out. 29:10 – Panel: Can you explain this to me. Why do I need to write tests? It’s always working (my code) so why do I have to write a test? 29:39 – Guest: When working with AWS I was writing... 31:01 – Aimee: My biggest thing is that I have seen enough that the people don’t value testing are in a very bad place, and the people that value testing are in a good place. It even comes back to the customers, because the code gets so hard that you end up repeatedly releasing bugs. Customers will stop paying their bills if this happens too often for them. 33:00 – Panel: Aimee / Chris do you have a preferred tool? I have done testing before, but not as much as I should be doing. 33:25 – Aimee: I like JEST and PUPPETEER. 33:58 – Guest: I like JEST, too. 34:20 – Aimee: Let’s go to PICKS! 34:35 – Advertisement – eBook: Get a coder job! Links: JavaScript jQuery React Elixir Elm Vue JEST Puppeteer Podflix Autojump Brutalist Web Design YouTube: Mac Miller Balloon Fiesta DocZ CloseBrace Christopher Buecheler’s Website Christopher Buecheler’s LinkedIn Christopher Buecheler’s GitHub Go Learn Things – Chris Ferdinandi Sponsors: Kendo UI Sentry Cache Fly Get a Coder Job Picks: Aimee Podflix Chris F. AutoJump Brutalist Web Design Mac Miller Tiny Desk Concert AJ Canada Dry with Lemonade Aaron ABQ Ballon Festival Joe Eames DND Recording Channel Christopher Docz South Reach Trilogy Jeff Vandermeer
Panel: Aimee Knight AJ O’Neal Aaron Frost Christopher Ferdinandi Special Guests: Christopher Buecheler In this episode, the panel talks with Christopher Buecheler who is an author, blogger, web developer, and founder of CloseBrace. The panel and Christopher talk about stepping outside of your comfort zone. With a technological world that is ever changing, it is important to always be learning within your field. Check out today’s episode to learn more! Show Topics: 0:00 – Advertisement: KENDO UI 1:08 – Aimee: Our guest is Christopher Buecheler – tell us about yourself and what you do. 1:22 – Guest: I run a site and help mid-career developers. I put out a weekly newsletter, too. 2:01 – Aimee: It says that you are a fan of “getting comfortable being uncomfortable”? 2:15 – Guest: I am a self-taught developer, so that means I am scrambling to learn new things all the time. You are often faced with learning new things. When I learned React I was dumped into it. The pain and the difficulty are necessary in order to improve. If you aren’t having that experience then you aren’t learning as much as you could be. 3:26 – Aimee: I borrow lessons that I learned from ice-skating to programming. 3:49 – Guest: I started running a few years ago for better health. It was exhausting and miserable at the start and wondered why I was doing it. Now I run 5 times a week, and there is always a level of being uncomfortable, but now it’s apart of the run. It’s an interesting comparison to coding. It’s this idea of pushing through. 5:01 – Aimee: If you are comfortable you probably aren’t growing that much. In our industry you always have to be learning because things change so much! 5:25 – Guest: Yes, exactly. If you are not careful you can miss opportunities. 6:33 – Panel: You have some ideas about frameworks and libraries – one thing that I am always anxious about is being able to make sense of “what are some new trends that I should pay attention to?” I remember interviewing with someone saying: this mobile thing is just a fad. I remember thinking that she is going to miss this opportunity. I am worried that I am going to be THAT guy. How do you figure out what sort of things you should / shouldn’t pay attention to? 7:47 – Guest: It is a super exhausting thing to keep up with – I agree. For me, a lot of what I pay attention to is the technology that has the backing of a multi-million dollar company then that shows that technology isn’t going anywhere, anytime soon. The other thing I would look at is how ACTIVE is the community around it? 9:15 – Panel: Is there a strategic way to approach this? There is so many different directions that you can grow and push yourself within your career? Do you have any kinds of thoughts/tips on how you want your career to evolve? 10:00 – Guest: I am trying to always communicate better to my newsletter audience. Also, a good approach, too, is what are people hiring for? 11:06 – Aimee: Again, I would say: focus on learning. 11:30 – Panel: And I agree with Aimee – “learn it and learn it well!” 12:01 – Panel: I want to ask Chris – what is CloseBrace? 12:17 – Guest: I founded it in November 2016, and started work on it back in 2013. 14:20 – Panel: It was filled with a bunch of buzz worthy words/title. 14:32 – Guest continues his thoughts/comments on CloseBrace. 16:54 – Panel: How is the growth going? 17:00 – Guest: It is growing very well. I put out a massive, massive tutorial course – I wouldn’t necessarily advice that people do this b/c it can be overwhelming. However, growth this year I have focused on marketing. I haven’t shared numbers or anything but it’s increased 500%, and I am happy about it. 18:05 – Panel: Are you keeping in-house? 18:13 – Guest: I think it would be cool to expand, but now it is in-house. I don’t want to borrow Egg Head’s setup. I would love to cover MORE topics, though. 19:05 – Panel: You are only one person. 19:08 – Guest: If I can get the site creating more revenue than I can hire someone to do video editing, etc. 19:35 – Panel: I think you are overthinking it. 19:45 – Guest. 19:47 – Advertisement – Sentry.io 20:47 – Guest. 21:30 – Aimee: There are SO many resources out there right now. Where do you think you fit into this landscape? 21:44 – The landscape is cluttered, but I feel that I am different b/c of my thoroughness. I don’t always explain line by line, but I do say how and why things work. I think also is my VOICE. Not my radio voice, but the tone and the approach you take with it. 23:25 – Panel: I was trying to copy folks in the beginning of my career. And at some point I realized that I needed to find my own style. It always came down to the reasons WHY I am different rather than the similarities. Like, Chris, you have these quick hits on CloseBrace, but some people might feel like they don’t have the time to get through ALL of your content, because it’s a lot. For me, that’s what I love about your content. 24:46 – Christopher: Yeah, it was intentional. 25:36 – Panel: Good for you. 25:49 – Guest: I am super device agnostic: Android, Mac, PC, etc. I have a lot of people from India that are more Microsoft-base. 26:28 – Aimee: I think Egghead is pretty good about this...do you cover testing at all with these things that you are doing? It’s good to do a “Hello World” but most of these sites don’t get into MORE complex pieces. I think that’s where you can get into trouble. It’s nice to have some boiler point testing, too. 27:18 – Guest answers Aimee’s question. 28:43 – Aimee: We work with a consultancy and I asked them to write tests for the things that we work with. That’s the value of the testing. It’s the code that comes out. 29:10 – Panel: Can you explain this to me. Why do I need to write tests? It’s always working (my code) so why do I have to write a test? 29:39 – Guest: When working with AWS I was writing... 31:01 – Aimee: My biggest thing is that I have seen enough that the people don’t value testing are in a very bad place, and the people that value testing are in a good place. It even comes back to the customers, because the code gets so hard that you end up repeatedly releasing bugs. Customers will stop paying their bills if this happens too often for them. 33:00 – Panel: Aimee / Chris do you have a preferred tool? I have done testing before, but not as much as I should be doing. 33:25 – Aimee: I like JEST and PUPPETEER. 33:58 – Guest: I like JEST, too. 34:20 – Aimee: Let’s go to PICKS! 34:35 – Advertisement – eBook: Get a coder job! Links: JavaScript jQuery React Elixir Elm Vue JEST Puppeteer Podflix Autojump Brutalist Web Design YouTube: Mac Miller Balloon Fiesta DocZ CloseBrace Christopher Buecheler’s Website Christopher Buecheler’s LinkedIn Christopher Buecheler’s GitHub Go Learn Things – Chris Ferdinandi Sponsors: Kendo UI Sentry Cache Fly Get a Coder Job Picks: Aimee Podflix Chris F. AutoJump Brutalist Web Design Mac Miller Tiny Desk Concert AJ Canada Dry with Lemonade Aaron ABQ Ballon Festival Joe Eames DND Recording Channel Christopher Docz South Reach Trilogy Jeff Vandermeer
Panel: Dave Kimura Charles Max Wood David Richards Special Guest: Genadi Samokovarov In this episode of Ruby Rogues, the panel talks with Genadi Samokovarov who is a software developer and loves using Ruby. Genadi also likes dance music. You can check out his code at GitHub and his mixes on SoundCloud. Finally, he blogs about technology that he cares about. Check-out his post about a curious Proc.new case in Ruby. If you are interested in his work experience, check out his resume here. Send Genadi an email or follow his social links. Show Topics: 0:00 – Sentry.IO – Advertisement! 1:30 – Chuck: Introduce yourself please. 1:39 – The guest talks about his background and the company he works for. 2:03 – Chuck: Did you build the web console or something else? 2:05 – Guest. 3:20 – Chuck: How do you run Ruby on the web console? 3:40 – Guest answers Chuck’s question. 4:13 – Chuck: The other question is about security concerns – you don’t want to run in production? 4:25 – Guest: No, you don’t want to do that. 4:31 – Chuck: Use at home - don’t use it on your work server. 5:15 – Panel: It’s one of those features that people overlook on Rails. You have to proactively add in a pack to launch in a web console in that particular view. A lot of times people will either throw away rays (ERB) and they are able to get the same thing but you can interact with the page w/o full rendering of the application. What I just mentioned what does a web console has a space for? 6:18 – Guest. 7:23 – Panel: What would happen – if I put a debugging code in my application and it got committed and shipped – what would happen? 7:46 – Guest answers. 8:24 – Chuck: When you deploy a production I don’t even know what this tag is? 8:33 – Guest. 9:10 – Chuck: Can I run it on Sinatra...or the other ones? 9:20 – Guest: If you make a bit of effort... 9:42 – Chuck: How does it pass things to the backend? 9:52 – Guest. 11:22 – Chuck: Let’s say you set this up and you would include the gem in the Rails app – I guess it comes by default. 11:36 – Guest. 11:58 – Panel: And if you want to embed it in a view in Rails? 12:05 – Guest. 12:06 – Chuck: That’s nice. 12:08 – Guest. 12:43 – Panel: I would think that would be the most exciting things. I know the views and how it’s included there is a little bit of a black box for me. I don’t know quite what is going on and that’s after many years of use. Being able to open the web console and see what’s going on and see what I was thinking. Sometimes when I have hard times with my code it’s because I didn’t understand the Rails way and how they organize things. So for me to take a look it dawns on me. 13:33 – Guest. 13:41 – Panel: I learned Rails on a laptop. I went to terminal mode only and I learned it really, really well. 14:21 – Guest. 14:27 – Panel: Can web console do a separate JavaScript app and then you have a Ruby API backend – can you use console any plugin to integrate with that? 15:00 – Guest. 16:20 – Panel: That’s really cool, and good note. When people are developing a gem they keep one type of Ruby or whatever. They don’t take into account that Ruby or the MRI or whatever they are using it’s cool that you are proactive keeping into account the different interpreters and it works across the platform. 16:56 – Guest: It’s a tricky business. 18:39 – Panel: So is this under active development or...? 18:45 – Guest. 18:53 – Chuck: What was the hardest part to put this together? 19:00 – Guest: Getting it to work! 19:09 – Chuck: Nope...just getting it to work. 19:15 – Guest. 20:43 – Panel: That’s something where I have been in situations where it has given back the Rails spec trace. Not the actual application – I have no idea how to debug it. Then I dig in deeper and find it’s in my application part. It is important to have that. 21:13 – Guest. 21:51 – Get A Coder Job! 22:15 – Chuck: Anything else or should we talk about the conference for a minute? 22:30 – Guest. 24:09 – Panel: So you are getting these conferences going – is there a healthy/strong Ruby following in Bulgaria, generally? 24:25 – Guest: We do Meetups. It’s pretty active and a healthy community. It’s not as strong as the States, but it’s strong. 25:26 – Panel: Nice. I find that it’s interesting – I was around with Ruby in 2004, and people have been using Ruby for a while and Rails was new. It’s fun to build an organization around that and empower people to do great things. It’s great to do work that are learning Ruby. 26:08 – Guest. 26:25 – Panel: So that’s one of my coworkers and got him using VS code and show people the light to make the switch. 26:50 – Chuck: I’ve already switched. 27:01 – Panel: We like our tools. 27:17 – Guest: I guess my people like VS code b/c it’s easier to maintain. 27:35 – Panel: Maybe my mind is so feeble-minded. 27:45 – Chuck: I turned on the EMAX for along time and turned on my EMAX in my KS code. I get the nice extras. I don’t feel like there are 10 zillion things to worry about. 28:12 – Guest. 28:21 – Panel: I think the key is the expressiveness – get it the ways I want 28:38 – Chuck: I just want to think of the fact that I am using code – and that’s a good thing. 28:54 – Guest. 29:04 – Panel: How many attendees did you have? 29:08 – Guest. 29:22 – Chuck: The conferences that I like to attend that have an attendance of 150, I like b/c it’s intimate. The larger conferences I feel lost in the crowd. It’s just different for me. 30:17 – Panel: It makes it easy to break into groups if the conference is small. 30:30 – Panel: There are so many things that the experts can teach and show to the beginners. They could teach me something that I didn’t know. It’s powerful b/c you’re talking about projects and get to know each other. 31:39 – Guest. 32:16 – Panel: One thing I like is that the attendees make a Slack channel, and the speaker can address that during the talk. Sometimes they get answered, but just in case. 32:40 – Chuck: Anything you’re working on now? 32:43 – Guest. 32:52 – Panel: Nice. 33:00 – Guest. 33:37 – Chuck: How can people find out about these different conferences? 33:50 – Guest: We have a Twitter account. 33:04 – Chuck: Let’s go to picks! 34:12 – Advertisement – Fresh Books! 41:31 – Cache Fly! Links: Get a Coder Job Course Ruby Ruby Motion Ruby on Rails Angular Ruby Issue Tracking System Libraries.io Balkan Ruby Partial Conf Chaos Group Genadi Samokovarov’s Twitter Genadi Samokovarov’s GitHub Genadi Samokovarov’s Website Sponsors: Sentry Get a Coder Job Course Fresh Books Cache Fly Picks: David Creative Quest by Quest Love The Rhythm in Everything Dave Dewalt Clamps Action Text Charles The Diabetes Code Keto Diet Endorsed Local Providers via Dave Ramsey Genadi Long Walk Freedom
Panel: Dave Kimura Charles Max Wood David Richards Special Guest: Genadi Samokovarov In this episode of Ruby Rogues, the panel talks with Genadi Samokovarov who is a software developer and loves using Ruby. Genadi also likes dance music. You can check out his code at GitHub and his mixes on SoundCloud. Finally, he blogs about technology that he cares about. Check-out his post about a curious Proc.new case in Ruby. If you are interested in his work experience, check out his resume here. Send Genadi an email or follow his social links. Show Topics: 0:00 – Sentry.IO – Advertisement! 1:30 – Chuck: Introduce yourself please. 1:39 – The guest talks about his background and the company he works for. 2:03 – Chuck: Did you build the web console or something else? 2:05 – Guest. 3:20 – Chuck: How do you run Ruby on the web console? 3:40 – Guest answers Chuck’s question. 4:13 – Chuck: The other question is about security concerns – you don’t want to run in production? 4:25 – Guest: No, you don’t want to do that. 4:31 – Chuck: Use at home - don’t use it on your work server. 5:15 – Panel: It’s one of those features that people overlook on Rails. You have to proactively add in a pack to launch in a web console in that particular view. A lot of times people will either throw away rays (ERB) and they are able to get the same thing but you can interact with the page w/o full rendering of the application. What I just mentioned what does a web console has a space for? 6:18 – Guest. 7:23 – Panel: What would happen – if I put a debugging code in my application and it got committed and shipped – what would happen? 7:46 – Guest answers. 8:24 – Chuck: When you deploy a production I don’t even know what this tag is? 8:33 – Guest. 9:10 – Chuck: Can I run it on Sinatra...or the other ones? 9:20 – Guest: If you make a bit of effort... 9:42 – Chuck: How does it pass things to the backend? 9:52 – Guest. 11:22 – Chuck: Let’s say you set this up and you would include the gem in the Rails app – I guess it comes by default. 11:36 – Guest. 11:58 – Panel: And if you want to embed it in a view in Rails? 12:05 – Guest. 12:06 – Chuck: That’s nice. 12:08 – Guest. 12:43 – Panel: I would think that would be the most exciting things. I know the views and how it’s included there is a little bit of a black box for me. I don’t know quite what is going on and that’s after many years of use. Being able to open the web console and see what’s going on and see what I was thinking. Sometimes when I have hard times with my code it’s because I didn’t understand the Rails way and how they organize things. So for me to take a look it dawns on me. 13:33 – Guest. 13:41 – Panel: I learned Rails on a laptop. I went to terminal mode only and I learned it really, really well. 14:21 – Guest. 14:27 – Panel: Can web console do a separate JavaScript app and then you have a Ruby API backend – can you use console any plugin to integrate with that? 15:00 – Guest. 16:20 – Panel: That’s really cool, and good note. When people are developing a gem they keep one type of Ruby or whatever. They don’t take into account that Ruby or the MRI or whatever they are using it’s cool that you are proactive keeping into account the different interpreters and it works across the platform. 16:56 – Guest: It’s a tricky business. 18:39 – Panel: So is this under active development or...? 18:45 – Guest. 18:53 – Chuck: What was the hardest part to put this together? 19:00 – Guest: Getting it to work! 19:09 – Chuck: Nope...just getting it to work. 19:15 – Guest. 20:43 – Panel: That’s something where I have been in situations where it has given back the Rails spec trace. Not the actual application – I have no idea how to debug it. Then I dig in deeper and find it’s in my application part. It is important to have that. 21:13 – Guest. 21:51 – Get A Coder Job! 22:15 – Chuck: Anything else or should we talk about the conference for a minute? 22:30 – Guest. 24:09 – Panel: So you are getting these conferences going – is there a healthy/strong Ruby following in Bulgaria, generally? 24:25 – Guest: We do Meetups. It’s pretty active and a healthy community. It’s not as strong as the States, but it’s strong. 25:26 – Panel: Nice. I find that it’s interesting – I was around with Ruby in 2004, and people have been using Ruby for a while and Rails was new. It’s fun to build an organization around that and empower people to do great things. It’s great to do work that are learning Ruby. 26:08 – Guest. 26:25 – Panel: So that’s one of my coworkers and got him using VS code and show people the light to make the switch. 26:50 – Chuck: I’ve already switched. 27:01 – Panel: We like our tools. 27:17 – Guest: I guess my people like VS code b/c it’s easier to maintain. 27:35 – Panel: Maybe my mind is so feeble-minded. 27:45 – Chuck: I turned on the EMAX for along time and turned on my EMAX in my KS code. I get the nice extras. I don’t feel like there are 10 zillion things to worry about. 28:12 – Guest. 28:21 – Panel: I think the key is the expressiveness – get it the ways I want 28:38 – Chuck: I just want to think of the fact that I am using code – and that’s a good thing. 28:54 – Guest. 29:04 – Panel: How many attendees did you have? 29:08 – Guest. 29:22 – Chuck: The conferences that I like to attend that have an attendance of 150, I like b/c it’s intimate. The larger conferences I feel lost in the crowd. It’s just different for me. 30:17 – Panel: It makes it easy to break into groups if the conference is small. 30:30 – Panel: There are so many things that the experts can teach and show to the beginners. They could teach me something that I didn’t know. It’s powerful b/c you’re talking about projects and get to know each other. 31:39 – Guest. 32:16 – Panel: One thing I like is that the attendees make a Slack channel, and the speaker can address that during the talk. Sometimes they get answered, but just in case. 32:40 – Chuck: Anything you’re working on now? 32:43 – Guest. 32:52 – Panel: Nice. 33:00 – Guest. 33:37 – Chuck: How can people find out about these different conferences? 33:50 – Guest: We have a Twitter account. 33:04 – Chuck: Let’s go to picks! 34:12 – Advertisement – Fresh Books! 41:31 – Cache Fly! Links: Get a Coder Job Course Ruby Ruby Motion Ruby on Rails Angular Ruby Issue Tracking System Libraries.io Balkan Ruby Partial Conf Chaos Group Genadi Samokovarov’s Twitter Genadi Samokovarov’s GitHub Genadi Samokovarov’s Website Sponsors: Sentry Get a Coder Job Course Fresh Books Cache Fly Picks: David Creative Quest by Quest Love The Rhythm in Everything Dave Dewalt Clamps Action Text Charles The Diabetes Code Keto Diet Endorsed Local Providers via Dave Ramsey Genadi Long Walk Freedom
Panel: Dave Kimura Charles Max Wood David Richards Special Guest: Genadi Samokovarov In this episode of Ruby Rogues, the panel talks with Genadi Samokovarov who is a software developer and loves using Ruby. Genadi also likes dance music. You can check out his code at GitHub and his mixes on SoundCloud. Finally, he blogs about technology that he cares about. Check-out his post about a curious Proc.new case in Ruby. If you are interested in his work experience, check out his resume here. Send Genadi an email or follow his social links. Show Topics: 0:00 – Sentry.IO – Advertisement! 1:30 – Chuck: Introduce yourself please. 1:39 – The guest talks about his background and the company he works for. 2:03 – Chuck: Did you build the web console or something else? 2:05 – Guest. 3:20 – Chuck: How do you run Ruby on the web console? 3:40 – Guest answers Chuck’s question. 4:13 – Chuck: The other question is about security concerns – you don’t want to run in production? 4:25 – Guest: No, you don’t want to do that. 4:31 – Chuck: Use at home - don’t use it on your work server. 5:15 – Panel: It’s one of those features that people overlook on Rails. You have to proactively add in a pack to launch in a web console in that particular view. A lot of times people will either throw away rays (ERB) and they are able to get the same thing but you can interact with the page w/o full rendering of the application. What I just mentioned what does a web console has a space for? 6:18 – Guest. 7:23 – Panel: What would happen – if I put a debugging code in my application and it got committed and shipped – what would happen? 7:46 – Guest answers. 8:24 – Chuck: When you deploy a production I don’t even know what this tag is? 8:33 – Guest. 9:10 – Chuck: Can I run it on Sinatra...or the other ones? 9:20 – Guest: If you make a bit of effort... 9:42 – Chuck: How does it pass things to the backend? 9:52 – Guest. 11:22 – Chuck: Let’s say you set this up and you would include the gem in the Rails app – I guess it comes by default. 11:36 – Guest. 11:58 – Panel: And if you want to embed it in a view in Rails? 12:05 – Guest. 12:06 – Chuck: That’s nice. 12:08 – Guest. 12:43 – Panel: I would think that would be the most exciting things. I know the views and how it’s included there is a little bit of a black box for me. I don’t know quite what is going on and that’s after many years of use. Being able to open the web console and see what’s going on and see what I was thinking. Sometimes when I have hard times with my code it’s because I didn’t understand the Rails way and how they organize things. So for me to take a look it dawns on me. 13:33 – Guest. 13:41 – Panel: I learned Rails on a laptop. I went to terminal mode only and I learned it really, really well. 14:21 – Guest. 14:27 – Panel: Can web console do a separate JavaScript app and then you have a Ruby API backend – can you use console any plugin to integrate with that? 15:00 – Guest. 16:20 – Panel: That’s really cool, and good note. When people are developing a gem they keep one type of Ruby or whatever. They don’t take into account that Ruby or the MRI or whatever they are using it’s cool that you are proactive keeping into account the different interpreters and it works across the platform. 16:56 – Guest: It’s a tricky business. 18:39 – Panel: So is this under active development or...? 18:45 – Guest. 18:53 – Chuck: What was the hardest part to put this together? 19:00 – Guest: Getting it to work! 19:09 – Chuck: Nope...just getting it to work. 19:15 – Guest. 20:43 – Panel: That’s something where I have been in situations where it has given back the Rails spec trace. Not the actual application – I have no idea how to debug it. Then I dig in deeper and find it’s in my application part. It is important to have that. 21:13 – Guest. 21:51 – Get A Coder Job! 22:15 – Chuck: Anything else or should we talk about the conference for a minute? 22:30 – Guest. 24:09 – Panel: So you are getting these conferences going – is there a healthy/strong Ruby following in Bulgaria, generally? 24:25 – Guest: We do Meetups. It’s pretty active and a healthy community. It’s not as strong as the States, but it’s strong. 25:26 – Panel: Nice. I find that it’s interesting – I was around with Ruby in 2004, and people have been using Ruby for a while and Rails was new. It’s fun to build an organization around that and empower people to do great things. It’s great to do work that are learning Ruby. 26:08 – Guest. 26:25 – Panel: So that’s one of my coworkers and got him using VS code and show people the light to make the switch. 26:50 – Chuck: I’ve already switched. 27:01 – Panel: We like our tools. 27:17 – Guest: I guess my people like VS code b/c it’s easier to maintain. 27:35 – Panel: Maybe my mind is so feeble-minded. 27:45 – Chuck: I turned on the EMAX for along time and turned on my EMAX in my KS code. I get the nice extras. I don’t feel like there are 10 zillion things to worry about. 28:12 – Guest. 28:21 – Panel: I think the key is the expressiveness – get it the ways I want 28:38 – Chuck: I just want to think of the fact that I am using code – and that’s a good thing. 28:54 – Guest. 29:04 – Panel: How many attendees did you have? 29:08 – Guest. 29:22 – Chuck: The conferences that I like to attend that have an attendance of 150, I like b/c it’s intimate. The larger conferences I feel lost in the crowd. It’s just different for me. 30:17 – Panel: It makes it easy to break into groups if the conference is small. 30:30 – Panel: There are so many things that the experts can teach and show to the beginners. They could teach me something that I didn’t know. It’s powerful b/c you’re talking about projects and get to know each other. 31:39 – Guest. 32:16 – Panel: One thing I like is that the attendees make a Slack channel, and the speaker can address that during the talk. Sometimes they get answered, but just in case. 32:40 – Chuck: Anything you’re working on now? 32:43 – Guest. 32:52 – Panel: Nice. 33:00 – Guest. 33:37 – Chuck: How can people find out about these different conferences? 33:50 – Guest: We have a Twitter account. 33:04 – Chuck: Let’s go to picks! 34:12 – Advertisement – Fresh Books! 41:31 – Cache Fly! Links: Get a Coder Job Course Ruby Ruby Motion Ruby on Rails Angular Ruby Issue Tracking System Libraries.io Balkan Ruby Partial Conf Chaos Group Genadi Samokovarov’s Twitter Genadi Samokovarov’s GitHub Genadi Samokovarov’s Website Sponsors: Sentry Get a Coder Job Course Fresh Books Cache Fly Picks: David Creative Quest by Quest Love The Rhythm in Everything Dave Dewalt Clamps Action Text Charles The Diabetes Code Keto Diet Endorsed Local Providers via Dave Ramsey Genadi Long Walk Freedom
Panel: Divya Sasidharan Charles Max Wood Joe Eames John Papa Chris Fritz Erik Hanchett Special Guest: Sarah Drasner In this episode, the panel talks with Jacob Schatz and Taylor Murphy who are apart of the GitLab Team. Jake is a staff developer, and Taylor is a manager at GitLab who started off as a data engineer. To find out more about the GitLab Team check them out here! Also, they are looking to hire, so inquire about the position through GitLab, if interested! The panel talks about Vue, Flux, Node, Flask, Python, D3, and much...much more! Show Topics: 1:51 – Chuck: Introduce yourselves, please. 1:55 – Backgrounds of the guests. 2:45 – Chuck. 2:51 – GitLab (GL): We first adapted Vue at the GitLab team for 2 years now. 3:34 – Chuck: What’s your workflow like through Vue? 3:50 – GL: We are using an application that...Using Python and Flask on the background. Vue CLI throughout the development. 4:35 – Panel asks a question. 4:40 – GitLab answers the question. 5:38 – Panel: Tell us about your secret project? 5:49 – GL: The data team at GL we are trying to solve these questions. How to get from resume to hire? There is data there. So that’s what Meltano helps with. Taylor has a Ph.D. in this area so he knows what’s he’s talking about. 7:30 – Taylor dives into this project via GitLab. 8:52 – GL: Super cool thing is that we are figuring out different ways to do things. It’s really cool stuff that we are doing. 9:23 – Panel: I’ve worked on projects when the frontend people and the data people are doing 2 different things. And they don’t know what each other group is doing. It’s interesting to bring the two things together. I see that teams have a hard time working together when it’s too separated. 10:31 – Panel: Can we get a definition of data scientist vs. a data engineer. 10:44 – Panel: Definitions of DATA SCIENCE and DATA ENGINEER are. 11:39 – GL: That is pretty close. Data science means different things to different people. 12:51 – Panel chimes in. 13:00 – Panel asks a question. 13:11 – GL: When I started working on Meltano... 14:26 – Panel: Looker is a visualization tool; I thought: I bet we can make that. I have been recreating something like Looker. We are trying to replace Looker. We are recreating a lot of the functionality of Looker. 15:10 – Panel will this be called...? 15:31 – Meltano analyze it’s apart of Meltano. Cool thing about Looker it has these files that show the whole visualization – drag and drop. With these files we can do version control. It’s built in – and if you drag it’s apart of a database. We took these files and we... 17:37 – Panel: Define Vue for that, please? 17:49 – GL dives into this topic. 18:40 – GL mentions Node. 18:52 – Chuck: What format does your data take? Do you have different reports that get sent? How does that work? 19:13 – GL: It tells a list of measures and dimensions. I setup our database to... 20:13 – Panel: Question. You chose Vue and it’s working. The reality you could have chosen any other tools. Why really did you choose Vue? 20:30 – GL: I know Vue really well. In the early 2000s I had my... If I have to repeat a process I always use Vue, because it’s the thing I am most comfortable with. This is how I program things very quickly. 21:10 – Panel: How has Vue met or exceeded or not met those expectations? 21:20 – GL: It has exceeded my expectations. One of the things is that as I am trying to staff a team I am trying to write Vue so when people see it they don’t think, “why would he do that?” 22:53 – Flux inspired architecture. 23:07 – GitLab continues the talk. 23:21 – Everything is Flux inspired in the sense that it was an idea to start with and then everybody made alterations and built things on top of that. 23:48 – Panel chimes in. 24:35 – Panel: Can you speak on the process of the workflow and process you work in Taylor and the data science and the frontend of it? 24:54 – GL: It’s the same but different. GitLab talks about Meltano some more, and also Taylor. GL: Taylor is trying to solve all these problems through Meltano. Maybe we can build our own tools? 26:05 – Panel: What’s a Lever Extractor?! 26:14 – GL: Answers this question. 26:25 – Panel: So it’s not a technical term...okay. 26:30 – GitLab continues the talk and discusses different tools. 27:18 – Panel: You are grabbing that data and Taylor is doing his magic? Or is it more integrated? 27:32 – GL answers this question. 29:06 – GitLab: In the beginning we are building that extractors for the other team, but later... The cool thing about Meltano is making it like Word Press. We have an extractor, different directories other things will be discovered by Meltano and discovered by the Gooey. If you write it correctly it can hook on to it. 30:00 – Digital Ocean Advertisement 31:38 – Panel: Meltano is a mix between Python and JavaScript or Vue? 30:43 – GL: Yeah... 31:20 – Panel asks question. How are you orchestrating the data? 31:32 – GL: Eventually it will happen with GitLab CUI. We are thinking we can orchestrate other ways. Right now it’s manually. 32:33 – GL: I like finding some sort of language that doesn’t have an extension...and writing... 32:54 – GL: I’m excited to use a tool that does things the right way like loading and transforming data but the frontend can be a joy to use. A previous company that I worked with and thought: It would be a joy to work with and connect to things that make sense, and do things the “right way”. I hope that’s what we can do with Meltano. I’m not a frontend person, but I appreciate it. 34:03 – GL: This is what I’m going to do...we will have these conversations between Taylor, myself, and our teams. 34:53 – Panel: This is a tool that people need to DL, maybe will you guys host this somewhere as a service. 35:10 – GL: We are trying to get this running. Small steps. It’s not out of the question and it’s not out of the question for this to be a service. 35:33 – GL: What do you want to do with the data warehouse? Your data is yours. 36:06 – Panel: Yeah, you don’t want to be in-charge of that. 36:17 – Panel: Have we asked where the name Meltano came from? 36:30 – GL: It sounds like a weird name. Here is the background of the name of “Meltano” came from. First name was from a sperm whale, it’s a unique name: Cachalot. 38:02 – GL: Conversation continues. 38:38 – Panel chimes in. 38:58 – GL: What does this program offering and doing...This was to help me with the name. 39:27 – GL: Acronym for Meltano: Model / Extract / Load / Transform / Analyze / Notebook / Orchestrate 39:47 – GL continues. They talk about notebooks. 40:19 –Sounds like a Daft Punk album! 40:28 – GL: I am trying to get more on the data science side. 40:57 – Panel: Question. Is Meltano super responsive and quick? 41:17 – GL: It depends on the size of the data, of course, but it is very responsive. 42:11 – GL: That job took 7-8 hours to extract everything for that specific project. 42:39 – GL: There are a lot of moving parts, so that could depend on it slowing it down or speeding it up. 43:01 – When you were building Meltano for your team, for the visualization how do you make decisions on what exactly you are visualizing? 43:18 – GL: That is the tricky part...you are one team. We are trying to find at a point where the data team is happy. One thing for example I put out a bar chart. Team member said that bar charts should always be vertical. So I am learning how they work and their wealth of information on visualization. 44:33 – Panel: Chris always does visualization. 44:48 – GL: Emily is on the team, and knows a lot about that. The correct way to visualize data so it doesn’t just look “cool.” You want it to be useful. Chart JS is what I use. 45:32 – Panel: I have used Chart JS before, too. 46:00 – Chris: I really like... 46:37 – Panel continues this conversation. 47:01 – Panel: Keynote will be given by...at this conference. 47:11 – GL continues to talk about this conversation. From nothing to something in a short amount of time. When I showed people: 47:55 – Panel: are you using Vue transitions? 48:09 – GL: Nope not even slightly. My plan was to use Vue transitions but it’s icing on the cake. Just get it working. 48:29 – Panel: A link of how I use... 49:14 – GL: This is a very small amount of code to where you are. It’s not like you had to re-implement triangles or anything like that. 49:36 – Panel: It does take some time but once you get it – you get it. 49:59 – Panel: When working with axis it can get hairy. 50:52 – GL: D3 really does a lot of the math for you and fits right it once you know how it works. You can draw anything with HTML. Check Links. 52:19 – Panel: There are a million different ways to do visualizations. There is math behind... 53:08 – Panel: D3 also helps with de-clustering. 53:25 – Panel: Any recommendations with someone who wants to dive into D3? 53:37 – GL: Tutorials have gotten better over time. 53:57 – Panel continues the conversation. 54:19 – GL: D3 Version 4 and 5 was one big library. You have C3 – what’s your opinion on C3? 55:00 – GL: have no strong opinions. 55:03 – Chuck chimes in. 55:18 – Panel continues this conversation. She talks about how she had a hard time learning D3, and how everything clicked once she learned it. 55:55 – GL: Main reason why I didn’t use D3 because... 56:07 – GL: If you were a “real” developer you’d... 56:35 – Panel: Let’s go to Picks! 56:40 – Advertisement – Code Badges Links: JavaScript Ruby on Rails Angular Digital Ocean Code Badge Notion Vue Meltano Looker Node Flux Taylor Python Chart JS React Chris Fritz – JS Fiddle D3 Chris Lema – Building an Online Course... Vuetify The First Vue.js Spring Vue CLI 3.0 Online Tutorials To Help You Get Ahead Hacker Noon – Finding Creativity in Software Engineer Indiegogo Create Awesome Vue.js Apps With... Data Sketches Vue.js in Action Benjamin Hardy’s Website Data Intensive: Don’t Just Hack It Together Article: How to Pick a Career...By Tim Urban Taylor A. Murphy’s Twitter Email: tmurphy@gitlab.com GitLab – Meet our Team Jacob Schatz’s Twitter Sponsors: Kendo UI Digital Ocean Code Badge Cache Fly Picks: Joe Ben Hardy on Medium Set Goals Chris Vue CLI 3 Vue CLI 3 on Medium Vue Dev Tools Get a new computer John Vuetify Divya Data Sketch One climb Finding Creativity in Software Engineering Erik Create Awesome Vue.js Vue.js in action Charles Get a Coder Job Building an online course Jacob Alma CCS Read source code Allen Kay Taylor Designing Data-Intensive Applications Wait But Why
Panel: Divya Sasidharan Charles Max Wood Joe Eames John Papa Chris Fritz Erik Hanchett Special Guest: Sarah Drasner In this episode, the panel talks with Jacob Schatz and Taylor Murphy who are apart of the GitLab Team. Jake is a staff developer, and Taylor is a manager at GitLab who started off as a data engineer. To find out more about the GitLab Team check them out here! Also, they are looking to hire, so inquire about the position through GitLab, if interested! The panel talks about Vue, Flux, Node, Flask, Python, D3, and much...much more! Show Topics: 1:51 – Chuck: Introduce yourselves, please. 1:55 – Backgrounds of the guests. 2:45 – Chuck. 2:51 – GitLab (GL): We first adapted Vue at the GitLab team for 2 years now. 3:34 – Chuck: What’s your workflow like through Vue? 3:50 – GL: We are using an application that...Using Python and Flask on the background. Vue CLI throughout the development. 4:35 – Panel asks a question. 4:40 – GitLab answers the question. 5:38 – Panel: Tell us about your secret project? 5:49 – GL: The data team at GL we are trying to solve these questions. How to get from resume to hire? There is data there. So that’s what Meltano helps with. Taylor has a Ph.D. in this area so he knows what’s he’s talking about. 7:30 – Taylor dives into this project via GitLab. 8:52 – GL: Super cool thing is that we are figuring out different ways to do things. It’s really cool stuff that we are doing. 9:23 – Panel: I’ve worked on projects when the frontend people and the data people are doing 2 different things. And they don’t know what each other group is doing. It’s interesting to bring the two things together. I see that teams have a hard time working together when it’s too separated. 10:31 – Panel: Can we get a definition of data scientist vs. a data engineer. 10:44 – Panel: Definitions of DATA SCIENCE and DATA ENGINEER are. 11:39 – GL: That is pretty close. Data science means different things to different people. 12:51 – Panel chimes in. 13:00 – Panel asks a question. 13:11 – GL: When I started working on Meltano... 14:26 – Panel: Looker is a visualization tool; I thought: I bet we can make that. I have been recreating something like Looker. We are trying to replace Looker. We are recreating a lot of the functionality of Looker. 15:10 – Panel will this be called...? 15:31 – Meltano analyze it’s apart of Meltano. Cool thing about Looker it has these files that show the whole visualization – drag and drop. With these files we can do version control. It’s built in – and if you drag it’s apart of a database. We took these files and we... 17:37 – Panel: Define Vue for that, please? 17:49 – GL dives into this topic. 18:40 – GL mentions Node. 18:52 – Chuck: What format does your data take? Do you have different reports that get sent? How does that work? 19:13 – GL: It tells a list of measures and dimensions. I setup our database to... 20:13 – Panel: Question. You chose Vue and it’s working. The reality you could have chosen any other tools. Why really did you choose Vue? 20:30 – GL: I know Vue really well. In the early 2000s I had my... If I have to repeat a process I always use Vue, because it’s the thing I am most comfortable with. This is how I program things very quickly. 21:10 – Panel: How has Vue met or exceeded or not met those expectations? 21:20 – GL: It has exceeded my expectations. One of the things is that as I am trying to staff a team I am trying to write Vue so when people see it they don’t think, “why would he do that?” 22:53 – Flux inspired architecture. 23:07 – GitLab continues the talk. 23:21 – Everything is Flux inspired in the sense that it was an idea to start with and then everybody made alterations and built things on top of that. 23:48 – Panel chimes in. 24:35 – Panel: Can you speak on the process of the workflow and process you work in Taylor and the data science and the frontend of it? 24:54 – GL: It’s the same but different. GitLab talks about Meltano some more, and also Taylor. GL: Taylor is trying to solve all these problems through Meltano. Maybe we can build our own tools? 26:05 – Panel: What’s a Lever Extractor?! 26:14 – GL: Answers this question. 26:25 – Panel: So it’s not a technical term...okay. 26:30 – GitLab continues the talk and discusses different tools. 27:18 – Panel: You are grabbing that data and Taylor is doing his magic? Or is it more integrated? 27:32 – GL answers this question. 29:06 – GitLab: In the beginning we are building that extractors for the other team, but later... The cool thing about Meltano is making it like Word Press. We have an extractor, different directories other things will be discovered by Meltano and discovered by the Gooey. If you write it correctly it can hook on to it. 30:00 – Digital Ocean Advertisement 31:38 – Panel: Meltano is a mix between Python and JavaScript or Vue? 30:43 – GL: Yeah... 31:20 – Panel asks question. How are you orchestrating the data? 31:32 – GL: Eventually it will happen with GitLab CUI. We are thinking we can orchestrate other ways. Right now it’s manually. 32:33 – GL: I like finding some sort of language that doesn’t have an extension...and writing... 32:54 – GL: I’m excited to use a tool that does things the right way like loading and transforming data but the frontend can be a joy to use. A previous company that I worked with and thought: It would be a joy to work with and connect to things that make sense, and do things the “right way”. I hope that’s what we can do with Meltano. I’m not a frontend person, but I appreciate it. 34:03 – GL: This is what I’m going to do...we will have these conversations between Taylor, myself, and our teams. 34:53 – Panel: This is a tool that people need to DL, maybe will you guys host this somewhere as a service. 35:10 – GL: We are trying to get this running. Small steps. It’s not out of the question and it’s not out of the question for this to be a service. 35:33 – GL: What do you want to do with the data warehouse? Your data is yours. 36:06 – Panel: Yeah, you don’t want to be in-charge of that. 36:17 – Panel: Have we asked where the name Meltano came from? 36:30 – GL: It sounds like a weird name. Here is the background of the name of “Meltano” came from. First name was from a sperm whale, it’s a unique name: Cachalot. 38:02 – GL: Conversation continues. 38:38 – Panel chimes in. 38:58 – GL: What does this program offering and doing...This was to help me with the name. 39:27 – GL: Acronym for Meltano: Model / Extract / Load / Transform / Analyze / Notebook / Orchestrate 39:47 – GL continues. They talk about notebooks. 40:19 –Sounds like a Daft Punk album! 40:28 – GL: I am trying to get more on the data science side. 40:57 – Panel: Question. Is Meltano super responsive and quick? 41:17 – GL: It depends on the size of the data, of course, but it is very responsive. 42:11 – GL: That job took 7-8 hours to extract everything for that specific project. 42:39 – GL: There are a lot of moving parts, so that could depend on it slowing it down or speeding it up. 43:01 – When you were building Meltano for your team, for the visualization how do you make decisions on what exactly you are visualizing? 43:18 – GL: That is the tricky part...you are one team. We are trying to find at a point where the data team is happy. One thing for example I put out a bar chart. Team member said that bar charts should always be vertical. So I am learning how they work and their wealth of information on visualization. 44:33 – Panel: Chris always does visualization. 44:48 – GL: Emily is on the team, and knows a lot about that. The correct way to visualize data so it doesn’t just look “cool.” You want it to be useful. Chart JS is what I use. 45:32 – Panel: I have used Chart JS before, too. 46:00 – Chris: I really like... 46:37 – Panel continues this conversation. 47:01 – Panel: Keynote will be given by...at this conference. 47:11 – GL continues to talk about this conversation. From nothing to something in a short amount of time. When I showed people: 47:55 – Panel: are you using Vue transitions? 48:09 – GL: Nope not even slightly. My plan was to use Vue transitions but it’s icing on the cake. Just get it working. 48:29 – Panel: A link of how I use... 49:14 – GL: This is a very small amount of code to where you are. It’s not like you had to re-implement triangles or anything like that. 49:36 – Panel: It does take some time but once you get it – you get it. 49:59 – Panel: When working with axis it can get hairy. 50:52 – GL: D3 really does a lot of the math for you and fits right it once you know how it works. You can draw anything with HTML. Check Links. 52:19 – Panel: There are a million different ways to do visualizations. There is math behind... 53:08 – Panel: D3 also helps with de-clustering. 53:25 – Panel: Any recommendations with someone who wants to dive into D3? 53:37 – GL: Tutorials have gotten better over time. 53:57 – Panel continues the conversation. 54:19 – GL: D3 Version 4 and 5 was one big library. You have C3 – what’s your opinion on C3? 55:00 – GL: have no strong opinions. 55:03 – Chuck chimes in. 55:18 – Panel continues this conversation. She talks about how she had a hard time learning D3, and how everything clicked once she learned it. 55:55 – GL: Main reason why I didn’t use D3 because... 56:07 – GL: If you were a “real” developer you’d... 56:35 – Panel: Let’s go to Picks! 56:40 – Advertisement – Code Badges Links: JavaScript Ruby on Rails Angular Digital Ocean Code Badge Notion Vue Meltano Looker Node Flux Taylor Python Chart JS React Chris Fritz – JS Fiddle D3 Chris Lema – Building an Online Course... Vuetify The First Vue.js Spring Vue CLI 3.0 Online Tutorials To Help You Get Ahead Hacker Noon – Finding Creativity in Software Engineer Indiegogo Create Awesome Vue.js Apps With... Data Sketches Vue.js in Action Benjamin Hardy’s Website Data Intensive: Don’t Just Hack It Together Article: How to Pick a Career...By Tim Urban Taylor A. Murphy’s Twitter Email: tmurphy@gitlab.com GitLab – Meet our Team Jacob Schatz’s Twitter Sponsors: Kendo UI Digital Ocean Code Badge Cache Fly Picks: Joe Ben Hardy on Medium Set Goals Chris Vue CLI 3 Vue CLI 3 on Medium Vue Dev Tools Get a new computer John Vuetify Divya Data Sketch One climb Finding Creativity in Software Engineering Erik Create Awesome Vue.js Vue.js in action Charles Get a Coder Job Building an online course Jacob Alma CCS Read source code Allen Kay Taylor Designing Data-Intensive Applications Wait But Why