18: Preparing for Black Friday - a podcast by Ben Orenstein and Derrick Reimer

Ben has finalized the logo for his Refactoring Rails course and is currently getting the intro/outro animations and the sales site designed. He also finished the notes for all the videos and was very pleased with the final edit quality. The launch date for RefactoringRails.io is October 16th, 2017. He is still considering options for his post-launch speaking tour.
At Drip, Derrick is deep in the backend scaling challenges with a lot of attention towards Black Friday for their ecommerce customers. They are looking to historical data in order to anticipate peak volumes and simulate high loads. One particular initiative they’re working on is “fair queuing” to improve Drip’s user experience under periods of high load.Today’s Topics Include:
Refactoring Rails course developmentScaling challenges and Black Friday volume
High-load simulationsAmazon auto-scaling groups
Fair queuingOpen source libraries
If you’re enjoying the show please give us your ratings and reviews iniTunes.
Links and resources:ElmBoston Elm MeetupRefactoring Rails course logoGumroadRocky Mountain RubyGraphQLNarro.coDripRefactoringRails.io

Further episodes of The Art of Product

Further podcasts by Ben Orenstein and Derrick Reimer

Website of Ben Orenstein and Derrick Reimer