A casual, ongoing conversation between two technology leaders with Chris Tonkinson and Frank Koehl.
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GoRails is a series of screencasts and guides for all aspects of Ruby on Rails. Learn how to setup your machine, build a Rails application, and deploy it to a server.
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Refactor is shining light on the people that make up the tech world. Through their stories and insights, let’s think about how to lean toward a more healthy, diverse and human-centric environment.
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We talk about everything that has something to do with improving big Rails apps.
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Refactor Your Body is a podcast produced by DevLifts aiming to provide valuable information and interviews for developers to help you live a healthy life and stay motivated on your fitness journey.
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Hosted by Chris Nobles, Dan Stabb, and Kay Fennimore, Refactor is a monthly podcast focusing on the people behind the technology. You'll hear inspiring stories from individuals throughout the tech industry who have changed their lives and the lives of others.
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If you come to a fork in the road, take it! Two’s Complement is a programming podcast, hosted by Matt Godbolt and Ben Rady; two programmers who both grew up wanting to make video games. One of them did, one of them didn’t, but now they both work together despite coming from very different backgrounds.
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The Thoughtworks podcast plunges deep into the latest tech topics that have captured our imagination. Join our panel of senior technologists to explore the most important trends in tech today, get frontline insights into our work developing cutting-edge tech and hear more about how today’s tech megatrends will impact you.
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Tune in for lively, insightful discussion of topics important to the mainframe community, from DevOps to security and staffing. 2022 & 2023 Finalist and 2020 winner of the DevOps Dozen Award for Best DevOps-Related Podcast Series.
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This podcast is all about fitness and nutrition with an IT slant. If you are interested in technology and fitness, this podcast might be exactly what you are looking for. John Sonmez and Iris Classon originally started the podcast in 2013 and are two experienced developers as well as fitness geeks. They helped many get in shape, lose weight, gain muscle and learn how to eat right during their weekly discussion about all things fitness and nutrition. Here is a short sampling for some of the t ...
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Dispatches from a life in progress.
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Welcome to Typemock, where amazing things happen.
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Interviews with makers about how they build great software
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A weekly conversation about design process and culture. Hosted by Marshall Bock and Brian Lovin.
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A podcast about technology that isn't quite ready yet. Hosted by Pascal Hartig (@passy) and Emil Sjölander (@emilsjolander).
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Legacy Code Rocks explores the world of modernizing existing software applications. Hosts Andrea Goulet and M. Scott Ford of Corgibytes are out to change the way you think about legacy code. If you’re like a lot of people, when you hear the words “legacy code” it conjures up images of big mainframes and archaic punch card machines. While that’s true — it only tells a small part of the story. The truth is, the code you leave behind is your legacy, so let's make it a good one.
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Common sense, no bull advice on digital transformation trends. We focus on the business impacts.
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My founder guests and I will help you avoid the pitfalls common to recruiting, onboarding, and managing software developers
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Welcome to Leah Grantz, where amazing things happen.
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I help software developers build meaningful careers with purpose. Unlike others - who recommend chasing big salaries, jobs at elite companies (FAANG), or grinding interview prep - I mentor developers toward fulfilling, balanced software careers. My goal is to help you work on software that makes the world a better place.
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Visit www.BestBusinessCoach.ca for free resources & bonuses from interviews. Our mission is to help create 200 new multi-million dollar businesses. How? Evidence based methods, accountability & step-by-step systems.
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Eat Sleep Code is the Official Telerik Podcast (Telerik by Progress). On Eat Sleep Code you'll hear from industry pros and developers just like you. Topics include all things software development and upcoming tech. Progress believes in giving back to the developer community and we do this by writing, speaking and staying in touch with the software development community.
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Inside iOS dev is a weekly show about real world iOS development. Your hosts, Alex Bush and Sandeep Aggarwal, draw from their experiences ranging from 4+ year old legacy codebases, to small startup green field projects, to working on apps at places like Uber, Wayfair, and Upkeep with millions of active users. They discuss everything from implementing specific features, to creating flexible designs, to utilizing refactoring techniques, and more. This is THE show for professional iOS developers.
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In flagrant violation of Betteridge's Law, Ben and Matt consider the question 'Is Optimization Refactoring?' and conclude that the answer is 'probably'. Ben warns our listener about overspecifying in tests. Matt is horrified by his own assumption that other people's code works.
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Refactored #135: “Fiber Fiasco” On this episode of Refactored… Chris gets entangled in a suburban standoff where HOAs and ISPs play hot potato with his Internet dreams. Logitech, once a name synonymous with quality peripherals, now hocking an “AI” mouse. For real. Ansible and Pulumi pick up steam. No one loves Chef anymore. Terraform is still a thi…
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Sometimes you write code to get a feature working and stop there. With a little refactoring, you can extract local variables into methods that make testing and extending easier.By Chris Oliver
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Continuous delivery vs. continuous deployment: What should be the default?
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Despite occasional confusion, the difference between continuous delivery and continuous deployment is simple: should deploying to production be on demand or every good build? Answering which approach is 'best' is difficult; any attempt at dogmatism is likely to just look foolish, given it is, like many other debates in software development, context…
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Sometimes you need user input to be restricted to a certain range or limited like "greater than zero". While you can do this with conditionals, there are some useful tricks to do this better in Ruby.By Chris Oliver
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Generative AI and the Mainframe Developer Experience
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Intellyx Director and Principal Analyst Jason English, BMC Vice President of R&D David Jeffries, BMC R&D Solutions Architect Anthony Distauro, and BMC Lead Product Manager Mark Schettenhelm discuss the role generative AI is already playing in mainframe DevOps and what’s in store for the future, including how GenAI can help streamline onboarding of …
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Rubygems.org released a new feature called Trusted Publishing which allows you to release gems directly from GitHub Actions without requiring 2FA or long-lived API tokens. Let's see how it works!By Chris Oliver
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Volume 30 of the Thoughtworks Technology Radar was published in April 2024. Alongside 105 blips, the edition also featured four themes selected by the team of technologists that puts the Radar together. They were: open-ish source licenses, AI-assisted software development teams, emerging architecture patterns for LLMs and dragging pull requests clo…
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BMC’s Anne Hoelscher, David Schipper, and Mark Schettenhelm talk about their mainframe careers, how things have changed since they started out, and how the mainframe has adapted to stay relevant for six decades and counting.Links:Blog: The Next, Next Generation of Mainframers Is Here, by Anne Hoelscher - https://www.bmc.com/blogs/mainframe-next-gen…
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Building at the intersection of machine learning and software engineering
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Bringing machine learning models into production is challenging. This is why, as demand for machine learning capabilities in products and services increases, new kinds of teams and new ways of working are emerging to bridge the gap between data science and software engineering. Effective Machine Learning Teams — written by Thoughtworkers David Tan,…
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Refactored #134: “Standard Issue Hostility” On this episode of Refactored… American Kennel Club makes a mockery of their trademark. Frank explains. Chris explains why he’s ruined his life. Again. Yet Another Email Migration. Gonna hashtag #YAEM for next time. Moves back to QWERTY because he loves the pain. The guys have a good debate over standards…
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133: Helldevins 2: The Electric Intelligoo
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Refactored #133: “Helldevins 2: The Electric Intelligoo” On this episode of Refactored… Devin was a lie. Can’t make this stuff up. The guys eat humble pie, admitting their miscall on AI’s immediate threat to software engineering jobs. Helldivers 2 storms gaming, leaving Chris ever FOMOd. The pick of the week is the Makalu Max from Mountain. … and m…
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Can AI improve the quality of our code? A recent white paper published by code analysis company CodeScene — "Refactoring vs. Refuctoring: Advancing the state of AI-automated code improvements" — highlighted some significant challenges: in tests, AI solutions only delivered functionally correct refactorings 37% of the time. However, there are nevert…
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Matt ponders the future of his accidentally eponymous hobby project. Ben offers thoughtful consideration while waiting for the right opportunity to crack a joke. No lawyers were harmed in the making of this podcast.
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In this episode, we will learn about handling one-time payments with the Pay gem and Stripe embedded checkout. This is a great approach for non-recurring payments and can be implemented very quickly.By Chris Oliver
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Refactored #132: “SCANdelous calculus” On this episode of Refactored… Chris' newest billion dollar idea: empowering despots with AI. Frank doesn’t even like GPS-monitoring. Frank’s WoW team achieves a milestone! He and his raiding group are among the top 0.19% on the new content. The guys virtually drool over Helldivers 2 while Chris admits he’s to…
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Mainframe Observability: More Than Monitoring
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Mainframe Observability: More Than MonitoringIntellyx Managing Director Jason Bloomberg, BMC Vice President of Research and Development David Jeffries, and BMC Director of Product Management Alan Warhurst discuss the importance of mainframe observability, what it entails, and its role in regulatory frameworks like the EU’s Digital Operational Resil…
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Refactored #131: “Supply Chain Shenanigans” On this episode of Refactored… The XZ Utils library was compromised. Guys, this could have been very bad. The guys talk supply chain security — the weak[est?] point in your infrastructure? Frank makes a bold cliam; apparently “too many” is more than “some.” Breaking mathematical discoveries like this, you…
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How to measure your cloud carbon footprint
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If you've ever wondered how to measure your cloud carbon footprint, you can — thanks to a tool that's called, somewhat unsurprisingly, Cloud Carbon Footprint. Launched in March 2021 by Thoughtworks as an open-source project, it allows users to monitor and measure carbon emissions and energy use from cloud services. On this episode of the Technology…
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In this video, you'll learn about a feature of IRB, which is the ability to change context into an object.By Chris Oliver
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From Vintage Computers to Test Automation with Sophia McKeever
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How do the love for vintage computers and test automation come together? Can one inspire another and how? Today we talk with Sophia Mckeever, a software development engineer at Pokemon Company International, a test automation framework architect, and a computer historian. She tells us what led her to collect vintage computers, how they evolved into…
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Refactored #130: “Jesus 2.0” On this episode of Refactored… Frank introduces a concept he is calling “Jesus 2.0 Projects” Projects that will solve everything™… once (if?) they ship. Projects that take real testicular fortitude to launch. Projects that also take real courage to terminate if they languish. Are executive sponsors to blame? Chris rumag…
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Refactored #129: “World of WarCAP” On this episode of Refactored… MongoDB. The wrong choice for your website, but thankfully at least it’s “Web Scale”. Chris rants. Hard. Postgres has “inexact” numerics. Today Chris learned. NewSQL lets you pretend to break the CAP Theorem for your ACID RDBMS. Frank has a bone to pick with Blizzards implementation …
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In Kubernetes, security is a joint effort between security engineers and DevOps. A perfect tool to bring these two together is Kubescape, an open-source Kubernetes security project. Today, we talk with Shauli Rozen, the CEO of ARMO, the company behind Kubescape. Shauli has more than fifteen years of experience in technology, B2B management, and bus…
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Technology through the Looking Glass: Preparing for 2024 and beyond
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Looking Glass isn't like most other technology trend reports. It doesn't just tell you what deserves your attention, it's designed to help you use it to focus on what really matters to you. Published once a year, Thoughtworks intends it to be a tool that helps readers make sense of the emerging technologies that are going to shape the industry in t…
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Ben and Matt discuss their transition to using ARM-based Apple Silicon laptops for their day jobs. Ben rewrites Bash into Java because it makes his tests run faster. Matt tries to teach VSCode something and winds up writing JSON instead.
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Refactored #128: “Jobs Destroyed or Prevented” On this episode of Refactored… It was Pi Day! The guys… well, the guys basically just complain. Devin exists now. The guys debate whether “he” (is that misgendering?) will replace you. Chris claims peak mania, and Primeagen has some great commentary. Frank points towards the… uh… bold? stupid? boring? …
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Mainframe Operational Resilience: DORA and Beyond
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Led by Futurum's Steven Dickens, our panel discusses the EU's Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA), how companies are preparing for it, and its benefits beyond regulatory requirements.Links:Webpage: What is DORA? The Digital Operational Resilience Act Explained - https://www.bmc.com/doraBlog Post: Navigating DORA Regulations: A Guide for Mainf…
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Refactored #127: “Gandalf on a T-Rex” On this episode of Refactored… The guys debate compenastion transparency, but not the way you think. Should managers hold comp info? Um, duh. What are we even doing here? Should companies be fully comp-transparent? That’s more complex. “At will” employment is the only will, per the guys. Chris has an exposed ne…
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Ever wondered how Rails controllers get their functionality? Let's see how we can add translation support to Rails API controllers by looking at the Rails sourceBy Chris Oliver
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Diving head first into software architecture
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A few years ago, Thoughtworker and (prolific) author Neal Ford published Fundamentals of Software Architecture with Mark Richards. They're now back with another book on software architecture — written with co-author Raju Gandhi — which offers readers a very different learning experience. Described as a combination of technical book and graphic nove…
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Driving Down Database Development Dollars
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BMC Lead Product Developer Marcus Davage, R&D Solutions Architect Frank Rhodes, and Principal Solution Marketing Manager Nick Mears discuss the advantages of a collaborative, database DevOps approach to mainframe database development.Links:Presentation: Driving Down Database Development Dollars - https://www.virtualusergroups.com/project/january-20…
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Reviewing logs for security threats and operational functions can be a cumbersome task. Attention is a finite resource, and it is easy to miss something when faced with megabytes of data. Today, we talk with Joe Gross, the Director of Solutions Engineering at Graylog, a leading centralized log management solution for capturing, storing, and enablin…
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Refactored #126: “Self-Promoting Class Suits” On this episode of Refactored… Chris struggles with self-promotion. Frank says “just have confidence.” They fight. “Get me somebody! And get me somebody while I’m waiting!” Interesting analogy - how often do you turn into the Hulk? Wyze breach. People… don’t put cameras in your bedroom. Chris doesn’t bu…
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Exploring the building blocks of distributed systems
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Distributed systems are ubiquitous yet complex. They can be particularly demanding for software developers and architects tasked with dealing with the sometimes unpredictable nature of the interactions between their various parts. That's why Thoughtworker Unmesh Joshi wrote Patterns of Distributed Systems. Published at the end of 2023, the book exp…
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It's Not the 1980s, So Why Develop That Way?
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BMC Senior Product Manager Rita Ankatha and Lead Product Manager Mark Schettenhelm discuss changes they’ve seen in the process and tooling of mainframe development and why a modern approach is the right one.By BMC Software
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Managing Security Services with Scott McCrady
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Cyber security is not a core activity of most software development companies. It is an outsourced activity that simply has to be done so that we can deploy our core services. Today, we talk with Scott McCrady, CEO of SolCyber Managed Security Services and an accomplished international executive with broad experience in sales, business development, …
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Matt and Ben describe how to build a developer automation interface with Make, a ubiquitous build tool that can be conveniently inflicted on other people. Ben explains a great way to test shell scripts that doesn't work. Matt deletes libbob3.so and then regrets it.
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Software-defined vehicles: The future of the automotive industry?
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A few decades ago, it would have probably seemed strange to put software and automobility together. However, today software is embedded in all kinds of modern vehicles, enabling capabilities in everything from driving to passenger entertainment. But what exactly does this all mean for the automotive industry? And what demands does it place on desig…
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Adam McCrea walks through using Phlex to build components for views in your Rails applications. Phlex is a Ruby gem for building fast object-oriented HTML and SVG components using Ruby constructs: methods, keyword arguments and blocks.By Chris Oliver
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2024 Predictions Double-Click: The Next Wave of Mainframe Innovation
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BMC Director of Software Consulting Tim Ceradsky and DevOps Evangelist Tony Anter share their thoughts on what’s to come for the mainframe in 2024. Links: Podcast: A Look Ahead: 2024 Mainframe Predictions - https://soundcloud.com/modernmainframe/mainframe-predictions-2024-a-look-ahead Podcast: Modern Mainframe DataOps - https://soundcloud.com/moder…
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