thoughtbot Giant Robots Episode #153-156
153: Auld Lang Syne (Chad Pytel) | Giant Robots Smashing into other Giant Robots Podcast
3 year anniversary, Chad Pytel
- Slack
- Dev Bootcamp graduates
- first production Haskell service
- REST app for comments
- Ruby meetup group tends to be big
- Keep ruby expensive
- new offices, Portland, Chicago, London
- drop pricing $99 or $49/month levels to the $29/month
- Generally, slow business beggining/end of year
- many vacations
- 75 people
- Our Books - thoughtbot
Samir Talwar of Codurance
155: CTO Duties (Joe Ferris) | Giant Robots Smashing into other Giant Robots Podcast
Joe Ferris, thoughtbot's CTO
- Upcase Newsletter
- thoughtbot CTOs
- everybody is expected to be CTO
- Ruby testing movement
- 100% TDD 9 years
- Haskell
- type system
- Docker
- Inversion of Control (IoC) and Dependency Injection (DI) patterns are all about removing dependencies from your code
156: It Has to be Valuable (Steve Tooke) | Giant Robots Smashing into other Giant Robots Podcast
Steve Tooke
- 3 days a week London
- social music app
- help collaboration
- TDD
- Michael Feathers - the deep synergy between testability and good design - YouTube
- Cucumber team
- podcast (Cucumber podcast)