Ruby Rogues

Episode 235: 229 RR Adopting New Technology

Ruby Rogues

When is it worthwhile to introduce a new language, tool, or database? And when will it likely bite you in the rearend?

02:43 - Episode Idea Background

04:28 - Implementing Standards and Comparisons

  • Minimize Entry Level / Maximizing Payoff

08:23 - “Dumb Code” and Developer Expectations

10:48 - Code Coverage and Regular Expressions

12:49 - Risk Impact/Probability Chart, Risk - Reward Matrix

24:01 - Collaboration, Communication => Constraint

  • Responsibility

30:36 - Bringing It In: Process

38:48 - Why would you want to switch databases and when is it worth it?

46:06 - Success Cases

  • Abstraction

Picks

OS4W: Open Source for Women (Coraline)
Contributor Covenant (Coraline)
Camille Fournier: Hopelessness and Confidence in Distributed Systems Design (Jessica)
Abby Bobé: From Protesting to Programming: Becoming a Tech Activist (Jessica)
Rails Remote Conf (Chuck)
TV Fool (Chuck)

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