Episode 322: 322: Rails CI Pipeline Performance with Kelly Sutton
The Ruby on Rails Podcast
Show Notes
Kelly Sutton is a software engineer at Gusto on their application infrastructure team. He and Brittany discuss his project, TestDesiderata, and his latest blog post, "From 25 Minutes to 7 Minutes: Improving the Performance of a Rails CI Pipeline".
Links for this episode:
- Gusto
- Kent Beck
- Test Desiderata
- From 25 Minutes to 7 Minutes: Improving the Performance of a Rails CI Pipeline
- Buildkite
- Kelly Sutton (@KellySutton) | Twitter
- Episode Introduction and Outro by Michael Springer
- Episode Music by Kevin MacLeod
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