~rubyweekly | Bookmarks (7)

Pressure Kills Cognition: Budgets Shrink, But Scope Doesn’t 😱 — Been told to do more with less? Talk to Test Double about how to deliver with fewer people without losing quality.

Maybe MOAR Is Not the Answer 🫠 — Turns out a relentless push for MOAR features and developers was wrong. Leaders could do with some reflection on less.

14 Tools and Gems Every Ruby Developer Would Love — I wouldn’t usually feature a list-driven article but this has been a quiet week and it's a good one! Joé rounds up his favorite tools and gems of the moment, covering areas from email and databases to performance monitoring and analytics. All solid recommendations.

Zero Downtime Rails Version Updates Are Within Reach 🎉 — Don’t put off version updates. Later means never. Check out quick-read blogs and a talk for an incremental approach.

Running Rails on AWS Elastic Beanstalk — I hadn’t heard about Elastic Beanstalk in a Ruby context for years, but it was one of the first automated ways to spin up a webapp in the cloud directly from a repo. If you're on AWS, it still works well, and Josh goes through every step here.

That’s Some Funky Stuff—Who’s Going to Work on That? 😅 — Solving strange, complex problems in legacy codebases is our specialty. Let’s make things more maintainable, so your team moves faster.

Your 2024 Roadmap: Budgets Shrink, but Scope Doesn’t 😱 — Burst capacity to hit today’s deadlines + strategies for future goals. We set you up for success long after we’re gone.