172: What I Believe About Software

Steph Viccari joins Chris for a conversation starting with a discussion of some deployment and orchestration issues Chris was helping out with, followed by some of Steph's recent experiences with JSONB in postgres and the relative trade-offs of unstructured data.

The heart of the conversation revolves around the core processes we use to develop software touching on sprint planning & story points, deadlines, the place for refactoring and code review in the regular cadence of development, and the often lamented retrospective meeting.

• Aptible - PAAS with strong security and HIPAA compliance
• Heroku Shield
• Google hiding www in URLs
• Auth0 - Identity management and auth as a service
• ActiveStorage - Rails's built in filie attachment framework
• Postgres JSON & JSONB Types
• The Real Story Behind Story Points
• Laurie Young Post on His Use of Story Points
• Deadlines
• XKCD - And Check Whether the Photo is of a Bird
• Headspace meditation