198: In Terms of Tradeoffs (Glenn Vanderburg)

On this week's episode, Chris is joined by Glenn Vanderburg, VP of Engineering at FirstHQ, live from RailsConf. They discuss Glenn's RailsConf talk, "The 30-Month Migration", covering distributed data models, refactoring, and the wonders of postgres. They also discuss Glenn's famous talk, "Real Software Engineering", and what the term "software engineering" means within our communities.

• Glenn on Twitter
• Glenn's blog
• RailsConf 2019 videos (should be live soon)
• First.io
• Postgres
• MySQL
• Postgres Common Table Expressions (CTEs)
• Swanand Pagnis - It's 2017, and I still want to sell you a graph database!
• GraphQL
• Glenn Vanderburg - Real Software Engineering
• Agile Manifesto
• Extreme Programming
• Rust Language
• Kathleen Fisher
• Kathleen Fisher, High Assurance Systems
• AWS Firecracker
• Bike Shed with Lin Clark & Till Schneidereit on WebAssembly & WASI
• Fastly Lucet
• Chaos Engineering
• Chaos Monkey
• Joe Armstrong
• Erlang
• Property Based Testing
• Erlang Actor Model
• Clojure
• ClojureScript
• Functional Core, Imperative Shell
• Sorbet - Stripe library for gradual static typing in Ruby

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