40: He's winking at me
Ben is joined by Bryan Helmkamp, the founder of CodeClimate. In Bryan's second appearance on the podcast, Ben and Bryan discuss the architecture behind CodeClimate, scaling the service, and growing the business. They also discuss speaking at conferences, proposal selection, two factor authentication and adding it to CodeClimate, marketing and content marketing, how to decide what to build and proving that it was worthwhile, strategies for testing at the beginning when you have few users, and Bryan reveals CodeClimate next big upcoming feature.
An episode of the Giant Robots Smashing Into Other Giant Robots podcast, hosted by thoughtbot, titled "40: He's winking at me" was published on March 18, 2013 and runs 32 minutes.
March 18, 2013 ·32m · Giant Robots Smashing Into Other Giant Robots
Summary
Ben is joined by Bryan Helmkamp, the founder of CodeClimate. In Bryan's second appearance on the podcast, Ben and Bryan discuss the architecture behind CodeClimate, scaling the service, and growing the business. They also discuss speaking at conferences, proposal selection, two factor authentication and adding it to CodeClimate, marketing and content marketing, how to decide what to build and proving that it was worthwhile, strategies for testing at the beginning when you have few users, and Bryan reveals CodeClimate next big upcoming feature. Sidekiq JRuby Rubinius Just-in-time (JIT) compilation Librato metrics Rails Security Monitor by Code Climate Boston.rb, Rails Application Security in Practice_ railssecurity.com Follow @thoughtbot, @r00k, and @brynary on twitter.Support Giant Robots Smashing Into Other Giant Robots
Episode Description
Ben is joined by Bryan Helmkamp, the founder of CodeClimate. In Bryan's second appearance on the podcast, Ben and Bryan discuss the architecture behind CodeClimate, scaling the service, and growing the business. They also discuss speaking at conferences, proposal selection, two factor authentication and adding it to CodeClimate, marketing and content marketing, how to decide what to build and proving that it was worthwhile, strategies for testing at the beginning when you have few users, and Bryan reveals CodeClimate next big upcoming feature.
- Sidekiq
- JRuby
- Rubinius
- Just-in-time (JIT) compilation
- Librato metrics
- Rails Security Monitor by Code Climate
- Boston.rb, Rails Application Security in Practice_
- railssecurity.com
Follow @thoughtbot, @r00k, and @brynary on twitter.
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