262: Good Idea, Terrible Idea?

On this week's episode, Chris introduces a new segment called "Good Idea, Terrible Idea?" as he considers introducing a read-only mode to avoid interrupting users during scheduled downtime. Steph has started a new project and explores the idea of merging separate, but similar, applications into one codebase. They also dive into micro-service environments to discuss the difficulties of integration testing and potential strategies. This episode is brought to you by: ScoutAPM (https://scoutapm.com/bikeshed) - Give Scout a try for free today and Scout will donate $5 to the open source project of your choice when you deploy Indeed (https://Indeed.com/bikeshed) - Click through and get started with a free seventy five dollar credit for your first job post Earth, Wind & Fire - September (https://youtu.be/Gs069dndIYk) ActiveRecord Persistence (https://api.rubyonrails.org/files/activerecord/lib/active_record/persistence_rb.html) Amazon SQS (https://aws.amazon.com/sqs/) Swagger (https://swagger.io/docs/) GraphQL (https://graphql.org/) VCR (https://github.com/vcr/vcr) The Bike Shed VCR episode - 189: It's Gonna Work, Definitely, No Problems Whatsoever (https://www.bikeshed.fm/189) Capybara Discoball (https://github.com/thoughtbot/capybara_discoball) React Podcast Episode - 110: Sam Selikoff on Finding a Full Stack React (https://spec.fm/podcasts/reactpodcast/X1swadgC) Become a Sponsor (https://thoughtbot.com/sponsorship) of The Bike Shed!