The Bike Shed

On this week's episode, we revisit RailsConf 2019 for another live recording, this time with Eileen M. Uchitelle, GitHubber and rails core team member. Eileen joins Chris to discuss her RailsConf talk on how GitHub maintained a custom fork of Rails for years, how they finally moved off it, and what lessons we can take away from their experience. They also discussed Eileen's recent work on automatic database switching coming in Rails 6, microservices and monoliths, and getting into working on Rails. This episode of The Bike Shed is sponsored by Indeed Prime Eileen M. Uchitelle - eileencodes Eileen's talk - The Past, Present, and Future of Rails at GitHub Rails 6 connection switching for databases Circuit break pattern ActiveJob Resque The Success of Open Source ActiveRecord Enums ActionCable S3 Service Disruption Indident IOT DDOS on DNS Aaron Patterson