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Starting a new job as a Staff+StaffPlus New York 20222022-04-04
Concrete, actionable checklist that decides whether to watch: clarify the exact hire rationale and the problem to own, build cross-org contacts and an…
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Knobs, buttons & switches: Operating your application at scaleRailsConf 20182018-04-17
Concrete levers and how they’re implemented matter: use maintenance mode as an env var and a read‑only mode, implement feature flags per group (backed by…
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Knobs, Levers and Buttons: tools for operating your application at scaleRubyConf AU 20182018-03-08
Seven operational controls are described with concrete implementations and tradeoffs: maintenance mode (env var) as a single hard switch, read‑only mode for…
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Beyond Validates_Presence_of: Ensuring Eventual ConsistencyRailsConf 20172017-04-25
Explains why moving billing into background jobs breaks :validates_presence_of and how to handle retries, idempotence, circuit breakers and exponential…
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Stuck in the Middle: Leverage the power of Rack MiddlewareRailsConf 20162016-05-04
Explains how to write and install custom Rack middleware, with concrete examples: a Ping Pong endpoint that short-circuits and returns 200 Pong, a…
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Estimation Blackjack and Other Games: a Comedic CompendiumRuby on Ales 20152015-03-05
Catalog of anti-patterns names common failure modes: Estimation Blackjack (people get penalized for higher estimates), Slot Machines (reveals stagger and…
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