203: A Blessed Monkeypatch (Eileen M. Uchitelle)

On this week's episode, we revisit RailsConf 2019 for another live recording, this time with Eileen M. Uchitelle, GitHubber and rails core team member. Eileen joins Chris to discuss her RailsConf talk on how GitHub maintained a custom fork of Rails for years, how they finally moved off it, and what lessons we can take away from their experience. They also discussed Eileen's recent work on automatic database switching coming in Rails 6, microservices and monoliths, and getting into working on Rails.

• Eileen M. Uchitelle - eileencodes
• Eileen's talk - The Past, Present, and Future of Rails at GitHub
• Rails 6 connection switching for databases
• Circuit break pattern
• ActiveJob
• Resque
• The Success of Open Source
• ActiveRecord Enums
• ActionCable
• S3 Service Disruption Indident
• IOT DDOS on DNS
• Aaron Patterson

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