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Tips for Joining an Existing Project 💡

If, like me, you don’t like change (who does?!), here are some tips that I have picked up along the way to try and help ease the transition onto an existing project.
Sami Birnbaum
July 25, 2022
Address Tech Debt with SRE Panel Recap

Recap of technical leadership panel on addressing tech debt with site reliability engineering.
Victoria Guido
July 22, 2022
- SRE
- Technical Debt
- DevOps
- Events
Value Object Semantics in Ruby

What is the correct behavior of hash, ==, eql? and equal? for value objects?
Joël Quenneville
July 18, 2022
- Ruby
- Good Code
- Domain Modeling
- Web
Booleans don't exist in Ruby

An investigation into Ruby’s C, stdlib, interfaces, libraries, tooling, and ecosystem into what, exactly, Ruby thinks a Boolean is.
Mike Burns
July 15, 2022
- Ruby
How we used DesignOps and Figma to scale our team

We looked to better document our designs and project background in a useful and clear way to support a growing team. This article outlines that experience and what success we found using Figma to support DesignOps.
Steven Neamonitakis, Kelly Gebo & Andrew Spencer
July 14, 2022
- Design
- Product Strategy
- Process
- Processes
- Product Design
- Figma
- Productivity
- Tools
AWS Summit - Virtual EMEA Recap

Recap of the AWS Virtual EMEA event.
Olamide Olaoye
July 12, 2022
- AWS
- DevOps
- Events
What my father taught me about software development

My father is a construction man. What could he teach me about being a software engineer? Well, quite a lot.
Matheus Richard
July 5, 2022
- Learning
We need to talk about fixtures

How the principle of connascence will help us to move away from fixtures.
Matheus Sales
July 4, 2022
Event Recap: Save Time & Money with Discovery Sprints

Last week we hosted a discussion to share learnings from design, dev and PM on all things Discovery Sprints. This blog highlights some of our key strategies.
Vendela Larsson, Bryce Morisako, Jason Bailey, Johny Ho & Kelly Gebo
June 30, 2022
Swag for your thoughts! (Survey for our community)

We would love to hear from our community what types of resources and events they enjoy, and if there is anything else thoughtbot can do to support your goals. In this blog we share a brief survery.
Diana Bald
June 28, 2022
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