177: Tricking Computers Into Doing Things

On this episode of the Bike Shed, Chris is joined by Christina Entcheva, developer from thoughtbot's New York studio who has been a product manager and designer previously in her career, but has since settled in to her role as a developer.

Chris & Christina share a conversation ranging from their shared love of "boring Rails apps", Christina's recent work with headless CMSs like Contentful & Prismic, and a discussion around Rails performance. Throughout the conversation they touch on theme's of keeping a focus on user needs throughout the work of developing applications.

• Contentful
• Prismic
• Essential Scala book
• Nate Berkopec
• The Complete Guide to Rails Performance
• Mark/Compact GC in MRI - Aaron Patterson
• Benchmark module in Ruby
• Postgres Table Partitioning
• Getting Real book by Basecamp
• It Doesn't Have to Be Crazy at Work
• Upcase is now Free!
• Testing Interaction with 3rd-party APIs on Upcase
• Composition Over Inheritance on Upcase