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A Journey into Site Reliability Engineering

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.
Clarissa Borges
December 8, 2022
- SRE
- DevOps
- Cloud
Why your start-up should care about ESG Initiatives (& how to get started)

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.
Kelly Gebo
December 7, 2022
Time Zones and Rocket Ships

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.
Joël Quenneville
December 6, 2022
- Web
- Rails
- Ruby
Your flaky tests might be time dependent

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.
Steve Polito
December 5, 2022
- Testing
- Rails
- Web
Our macOS setup script, Laptop, adds official support for Ventura

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.
Chad Pytel
December 2, 2022
- News
- Laptop
DEI: Speaking Up About Our Values

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.
Christopher Kuttruff, Mina Slater & Sally Hall
December 1, 2022
- DEI
- Culture
- Ethics
- Hiring
- Process
2023 Consumer Tech Trends

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.
Kelly Gebo
November 29, 2022
Takeaways from our Research & Strategic Insights Ask Me Anything webinar

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.
Dawn Delatte and Jordyn Bonds
November 23, 2022
What happens when you stop maintaining your Rails application?

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.
Jeanine Soterwood
November 21, 2022
- Good Code
- TDD
- Testing
- Rails
- Web
- Technical Debt
Building an Alexa Skill in Arabic with Ruby

More detail on how the thoughtbot team built one of the first Alexa skills in Arabic, and what we learned about using Ruby on Rails to support the development of Alexa Skills in the process.
Fritz Meissner, Sami Birnbaum & Kelly Gebo
November 18, 2022
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