Programming Books w/ Aaron Francis

Matt and Aaron talk about programming books and try to answer the question "do we need them?"This season of YAGNI was made possible by our friends at Flipper Cloud - Are big launches stressing you out? Then you need feature flags!Flipper Cloud helps your team deploy the code now and then roll out features when you’re good and ready. Get started for free atflippercloud.ioAaron Francis on Twitter // PlanetScaleMatt Swanson on Twitter // arrows.toAaron's shedAaron reading printed docs on the beachSQL Window FunctionsThe Pragmatic ProgrammerThe Timeless Way of BuildingCulture is StuckUse the Index, Luke!MySQL for Developers courseWhy do programmers use books as monitor stands?

Matt and Nate talk about Redis and try to answer the question "do we need it?"This season of YAGNI was made possible by our friends at Flipper Cloud - Are big launches stressing you out? Then you need feature flags!Flipper Cloud helps your team deploy the code now and then roll out features when you’re good and ready. Get started for free atflippercloud.ioNate Berkopec on Twitter // SpeedshopMatt Swanson on Twitter // arrows.to"Redis is not faster than your database""Your data fits in RAM"March of progressneo4jsidekiqACIDkredisWafris"Running Sidekiq...with a volatile eviction policy"Solid QueueSolid CacheThe open source gift exchangepuma/pumaThe Silver Rule

Matt and Jason talk about Service Objects and try to answer the question "do we need them?"This season of YAGNI was made possible by our friends at Flipper Cloud - Are big launches stressing you out? Then you need feature flags!Flipper Cloud helps your team deploy the code now and then roll out features when you’re good and ready. Get started for free atflippercloud.ioJason Swett on Twitter // Code with JasonMatt Swanson on Twitter // arrows.toJason's Snail Mail newsletterBrevity is the soul of wit

Matt and Josh talk about automated testing and try to answer the question "do we need them?"This season of YAGNI was made possible by our friends at Flipper Cloud - Are big launches stressing you out? Then you need feature flags!Flipper Cloud helps your team deploy the code now and then roll out features when you’re good and ready. Get started for free atflippercloud.ioJosh Pigford on Twitter // DetangleMatt Swanson on Twitter // arrows.toWittgenstein's RulerWhy doesn't Stripe have a /mrr endpoint?GitHub Project Paper CutsBaremetricsMaybeLaser TweetsCedar & SailThe best restaurant in the worldKim Kardashian - Kimoji appCursor AI EditorStated vs Revealed preferences

Matt and Trevor talk about GraphQL and try to answer the question "do we need it?" (Bonus hot takes on VCR snapshot testing)This season of YAGNI was made possible by our friends at Flipper Cloud - Are big launches stressing you out? Then you need feature flags!Flipper Cloud helps your team deploy the code now and then roll out features when you’re good and ready. Get started for free atflippercloud.ioTrevor Turk on Twitter // Hello WeatherMatt Swanson on Twitter // arrows.toGraphQL: The DocumentaryGraphiQLn+1 problems in GraphQLBFF: Backend for FrontendGraph TheorySchema stitchingBonus: VCR

Matt and Charity talk about Friday Deploys and try to answer the question "do we need them?"This season of YAGNI was made possible by our friends at Flipper Cloud - Are big launches stressing you out? Then you need feature flags! Flipper Cloud helps your team deploy the code now and then roll out features when you’re good and ready. Get started for free at flippercloud.ioCharity Majors on Twitter // honeycomb.ioMatt Swanson on Twitter // arrows.toFriday deploy freezes are exactly like murdering puppiesCoaching treeFrequency Reduces Difficulty (Martin Fowler)Payoff space vs consistency spaceBlame-aware postmortemDORA metrics

Justin Searls on TwitterMatt Swanson on TwitterArrowsTest DoubleJustin's "What do you like about RSpec" thread (2016)Dan North BDDNate Berkopec "Reading rspec documentation like..." tweetCorey Haines: Fast Rails TestsKent Beck: "I get paid for code that works, not for tests..."Nick Quaranto's minitest CLI wrapperMocktail gemtest_data gem

Dave Copeland on TwitterMatt Swanson on TwitterArrowsMood HealthTaylorism / Scientific managementGoogle DORA Report"Agile" on TikTokThe Joel Test“Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that.” George Carlin

Justin Duke on TwitterMatt Swanson on TwitterArrowsButtondownAccidental AirBnB "test" notificationThe Pragmatic Programmer"SICP" book"We dont use a staging server" HN threadChecklist ManifestoIQ Bell Curve / Midwit - Know Your Meme