162: You Have Ruined Your Rails App (Sam Phippen)

Sam Phippen joins us to discuss the maintenance burden of supporting old Rubies, service oriented architecture, and explorations of GraphQL and graph databases.

• Sam Phippen on Twitter
• RFC: rspec-rails versioning strategy
• Mix deps documentation
• NP-hardness
• bundle update --conservative docs
• Use create_or_find_by to avoid race condition in Rails 6.0
• Dgraph — A Distributed, Fast Graph Database
• 100: Nouns You Can Verb | The Bike Shed - Sam's previous discussion of GRPC on the podcast
• PostgreSQL: WITH Queries (Common Table Expressions)
• Work at DigitalOcean
• Jobs - thoughtbot
• Careers and Jobs at Shopify