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What a year it has already been

A year in the life as Managing Director at thoughtbot - Victoria reflects on last year’s popular topics in platform engineering, being a co-host of the giant robots podcast, attending the Oscars, and 25 years of climbing.
Victoria Guido
March 12, 2024
Incubator update 1: Dionna & Danyelle at Womanish

Discover the first weeks of the thoughtbot Incubator with Womanish — from assumptions to market segmentation and user research. Also hear about the experience from the founders themselves.
Bethan Ashley
March 11, 2024
PDS Kit - What happens on Day 4?

If you are following along with our Design Sprint Kit video playlist, this blog will shine a light on the activities you will be doing on Day 4 of your Product Design Sprint.
Ferdia Kenny
March 11, 2024
Introducing props_template: A Jbuilder alternative

We’ve built props_template, a faster Jbuilder that supports layouts, digging, and more!.
Johny Ho
March 8, 2024
- Ruby
- Web
- Ruby On Rails
- JSON
- Superglue
- Jbuilder
How to write good epics

A primer of best practices to group things well.
Jared Turner
March 7, 2024
Can Auto-Playing Videos be Accessible?

Let’s find out by following a step-by-step approach to address the accessibility requirements of auto-playing videos.
Andrew Spencer
March 6, 2024
- Accessibility
- HTML
- CSS
- Web
SRE: The Next Big Thing from thoughtbot's Platform Engineering team

thoughtbot is proud to add Site Reliability Engineering to our Platform Engineering team. This blog shares more info on the role and our goals with the offering.
Akshith Yellapragada
March 5, 2024
- SRE
- DevOps
PDS Kit - What happens on Day 3?

If you are following along with our Design Sprint Kit video playlist, this blog will shine a light on the activities you will be doing on Day 3 of your Product Design Sprint.
Ferdia Kenny
March 4, 2024
DevOps 101 - Intro to DevOps, SRE & Cloud Platform

Find out how thoughtbot’s Platform Engineering team collaborates for client delight.
Victoria Guido
March 1, 2024
- Flightdeck
- AWS
- SRE
- DevOps
- Events
Monitoring PostgreSQL on AWS RDS for slow queries

Some helpful tips to fixing slow database queries before they become a problem.
Olamide Olaoye
February 29, 2024
- AWS
- PostgreSQL
- Databases
- Debugging
- DevOps
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