The Bike Shed

On this episode of the Bike Shed, Chris is joined by Christina Entcheva, developer from thoughtbot's New York studio who has been a product manager and designer previously in her career, but has since settled in to her role as a developer. Chris & Christina share a conversation ranging from their shared love of "boring Rails apps", Christina's recent work with headless CMSs like Contentful & Prismic, and a discussion around Rails performance. Throughout the conversation they touch on theme's of keeping a focus on user needs throughout the work of developing applications. Contentful Prismic Essential Scala book Nate Berkopec The Complete Guide to Rails Performance Mark/Compact GC in MRI - Aaron Patterson Benchmark module in Ruby Postgres Table Partitioning Getting Real book by Basecamp It Doesn't Have to Be Crazy at Work Upcase is now Free! Testing Interaction with 3rd-party APIs on Upcase Composition Over Inheritance on Upcase