172: What I Believe About Software - a podcast by thoughtbot

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

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