We have summarised how the cost of living crisis is impacting the current hiring market including some options to consider when thinking through hiring and employee retention, and also a few solutions for immediate assistance if your product needs can’t wait.
While Rails gained a lot of popularity among companies to develop products quickly, technical debt and scalability issues were challenges that also gained space in this context. Let’s talk about some SRE fundamentals that can address those situations.
In order to equip our clients with best practices and recommendations, we spent some time digging into what an ESG strategy would entail for a start-up, why it could be an impactful differentiator to consider, and lastly how to get started thinking through your own ESG strategy.
Rocket launches show us that we can know that two future events will be simultaneous, or what the local time will be, but not both.
Time dependent tests are difficult to diagnose, and the symptoms don’t present themselves until it’s too late. This article will help you determine if your test suite is time dependent.
We’ve just pushed a new release of our macOS setup script, Laptop, which adds official support for macOS Ventura and fixes a few other issues.
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) is part of thoughtbot’s core values. As we encounter critiques of these principles, it is important to explain why we do what we do and why it sets us apart from toxic tech culture that still lives true today.
To best support thoughtbot’s teams and our clients, we spend the end of the year analyzing the patterns we’ve experienced and the trends on the horizon for the industries we support most frequently.
Learn from some of our product strategy leaders about validation and product/market fit and how they can make or break success with your product.
Here are the risks and common scenarios we see when a team doesn’t have a plan for ongoing maintenance for their Rails application. We also share how we support clients in these situations with our new, flexible, Rails Maintenance offering.