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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
How We Help Startups Choose a Tech Stack

Guidelines that thoughtbot uses to help founders pick a tech stack in the absence of any technology footprint.
Dave Iverson
February 28, 2024
- Product
- Playbook
- Founder
- Startup
- Architecture
- Ruby On Rails
- JavaScript
Linear Regression using dataframes in Ruby

How to use a basic tool of data science in ruby.
George Kosmopoulos
February 27, 2024
- Ruby
- Data Science
PDS Kit - What happens on Day 2?

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 2 of your Product Design Sprint.
Ferdia Kenny
February 26, 2024
Common pitfalls when creating epics (and how to avoid them!)

It’s easy to group things. But it’s not always easy to group well.
Jared Turner
February 23, 2024
thoughtbot Incubator announces selection for the first session of 2024

Learn about our startup founders going through the first thoughtbot Incubator session of 2024: Dionna Gray and Danyelle Gray of Womanish.
Dawn Delatte
February 22, 2024
- News
- Incubator
- Startup
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