Ruby Rogues – Details, episodes & analysis

 Today, they dive deep into the world of observability in programming, particularly within Rails applications, with special guest, John Gallagher. Valentino openly shares his struggles with engineering challenges and the frustration of recurring issues in his company's customer account app. They explore a five-step process Valentino has developed to tackle these problems and emphasize the critical role of defining use cases and focusing on relevant data for effective observability.
In this episode, they talk about the emotional journey of dealing with bugs, the importance of capturing every event within an app, and why metrics, logs, and tracing each play a unique role in debugging. They also touch on tools like Datadog, New Relic, and OpenTelemetry, discussing their practical applications and limitations. Valentino and John shed light on how structured logging, tracing, and the concept of high cardinality attributes can transform debugging experiences, ultimately aiming for a more intuitive and robust approach to observability.
Join them as they delve into the nexus of frustration, learning, and technological solutions, offering valuable insights for every developer striving to improve their application's resilience and performance.

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Charles and Valentino are joined by special guest Brian Vallelunga, CEO and co-founder of Doppler, a leading secrets management platform often described as "GitHub for secrets."
Dive into an engaging conversation about best practices for managing sensitive information, such as API keys and encryption keys, and treating all environment-configured settings as secrets. Brian shares insights on using tools like AWS Secrets Manager, Docker, and Doppler’s seamless integration with popular development workflows, ensuring robust access control and audit logging.
They discuss about the severe consequences of data breaches, compelling real-world scams, and the human cost of leaked data. Learn how Doppler helps developers avoid these risks while enhancing productivity. They also explore the intersection between developer efficiency and security, and emerging trends in secrets management like passwordless authentication.
Tune in for valuable tips, personal stories, and a peek at the future of secrets management and developer security. Let’s get started!


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Richard Feldman - author of Elm in Action - joins the Rogues to discuss the advantages of Functional Programming and using Elm. Elm is a programming language that is a functional programming language built for the front-end that compiles to JavaScript. Due to its set of enforced assumptions, it leads to clean code and powerful programming constructs.


Links

• Vue.js
• GitHub- NoRedInk/elm-rails
• ELM Homepage
• Discourse ELM
• ELM Slack
• Built with Elm

Picks

• John- GitHub: spree/spree
• John- GitHub: solidusio/solidus
• John- Merlin Series (The Lost Years by T.A.)
• Luke- PQINA | Designs and Builds Performant, Responsive, and Highly Polished Web Components
• Richard- TV series: Battlestar Galactica
• Richard- Frontend Masters
• Richard- Barbell medicine 

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Greg Molnar is a Ruby Developer and OSCP Penetration Tester. He joins the Rogues to talk about Server-Side Request Forgery in Rails. He begins by explaining what Server-Side Request Forgery is and its significance. They also discuss the state of security in Rails and provide their views on the best ways to secure your applications.
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Links

• Server-Side Request Forgery in Rails
• GitLab fixes serious SSRF flaw that exposed orgs’ internal servers | The Daily Swig
• GitHub - rubysec/bundler-audit: Patch-level verification for Bundler
• GitHub - presidentbeef/brakeman: A static analysis security vulnerability scanner for Ruby on Rails applications
• Spektr
•  Heartbleed - Wikipedia
• xkcd: Dependency
• Ghost In The Wires by Kevin Mitnick | Mitnick Security
• Rails SQL Injection examples 
• Securing Rails Applications — Ruby on Rails Guides
•  Burp Suite - Application Security Testing Software - PortSwigger
• Deploying with MRSK | Drifting Ruby

Promoted Links

• This Week in Rails
• The Rails Changelog
• Blob and File APIs
• DocsGPT and adopting OpenAI’s Chat Completions API

Socials

• Greg Molnar
• GitHub: gregmolnar
• Twitter: @GregMolnar

Picks

• Charles - The Crew
• Dave - MM11 Pro Switchable Mic Mute/Talk Professional Microphone Switch | Rolls Corporation - Real Sound
• Valentino - OpenAI’s new model – GPT-4 – GPT-4
• Valentino - This person gives GPT-4 $100 to see how much money it can make – https://twitter.com/jacksonfall/status/1636107218859745286

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Are you dissatisfied with your job? Sam Feeney helps organizations improve employee engagement, increase retention, and reinvent hiring while helping individuals (re)discover career satisfaction in their current roles. He joins the show alongside Chuck Wood to tackle altering the way you perceive your job and talk about Career satisfaction.
On YouTubeHow Do You Stop Hating Your Job? - BONUS
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• LinkedIn: Sam Feeney

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Alex Evanczuk is a Software Engineer at Gusto. He joins the show alongside Chuck and Valentino to discuss, "A How-to Guide to Ruby Packs, Gusto’s Gem Ecosystem for Modularizing Ruby Applications". He begins by explaining what Ruby Packs, Gems, and Modularization are and how it impacts Ruby applications. 
On YouTubeRuby Packs, Gems and Modularization with Alex Evanczuk - RUBY 589
Sponsors

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• Raygun - Application Monitoring For Web & Mobile Apps
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Links

• A How-to Guide to Ruby Packs, Gusto’s Gem Ecosystem for Modularizing Ruby Applications
• GitHub - Shopify/packwerk: Good things come in small packages.
• rubyatscale
• GitHub - rubyatscale/packs-rails

Socials

• LinkedIn Alex Evanczuk
• GitHub: alexevanczuk

Picks

• Alex - Gardening Podcast | Organic Gardener
• Alex - The Mandalorian (TV Series 2019
• Chuck - The Quacks of Quedlinburg
• Chuck - PipelinePRO
• Chuck - 1923 (TV series)
• Valentino - The 30th Anniversary of Ruby - YouTube
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Jeremy Smith is a Designer & Rails Developer and Mark Locklear is a Web Developer at the eXtension Foundation. They join the show alongside Chuck to talk about the Blue Ridge Ruby Conference. They go into detail about their conference-attending experiences and what motivated them to plan their own event. Additionally, they talk about their preparations for making the event successful (finding a venue, looking for speakers and sponsors, and others)
Sponsors

• Chuck's Resume Template
• Developer Book Club
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Links

• Blue Ridge Ruby

Socials

• Mark Locklear
• Twitter: @jeremysmithco
• Twitter: @marklocklear

Picks

• Chuck - Ark Nova
• Chuck - 75 Hard
• Chuck - 1923 (TV Series 2022–2023)
• Chuck - Everything Is Figureoutable 
• Chuck - The Power of One More
• Jeremy - How I Use RSS To “Rewild” My Attention | by Clive Thompson
• Jeremy - Good Services
• Mark - Logitech H820e Wireless Headset 
• Mark - Introducing ChatGPT

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Hosts of the JavaScript Jabber Podcast, Dan Shappir, and Steve Edwards join the Rogues on this week's crossover episode. They talk about both of the framework's useful features and how the JavaScript framework may be applied when creating Ruby applications. Additionally, they tackle each of their advantages and disadvantages.
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• Developer Book Club
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Socials

• Twitter: @wonder95
• Twitter: @DanShappir

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Jean Boussier is a Staff Engineer on Shopify's Ruby and Rails infrastructure team. He joins the show to talk about pitchfork. He begins by defining the pitchfork and describing how the application concept works. Moreover, he explains the reason why he wrote it and tackles some of its useful features. 
Sponsors

• Chuck's Resume Template
• Developer Book Club
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Educational Links

• GitHub - Shopify/pitchfork
• To Thread or Not to Thread: An In-Depth Look at Ruby’s Execution Models
• Heap Profiler: Measure memory allocations and retentions of a Ruby code snippet
• Rails’ eager_load_namespaces
• The Deadline pattern
• Circuit Breakers in Ruby with Semian
• Performance tuning Falcon 
• Ruby’s New GVL Instrumentation API 

Socials

• Jean Boussier (@byroot@ruby.social) - Ruby.social
• GitHub : byroot
• Twitter: @_byroot

Promoted Links

• Valentino’s Working On: Docs GPT

Picks

• Chuck - Sushi Go Party! 
• Chuck - Riverside.fm
• Jean - Ruby 3.2.0 Released
• Valentino - watchmeforever - Twitch
• Valentino - ivoanjo/gvl-tracing

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Dave and Valentino join this week's panelist episode to talk about important points to remember in web hosting. Dave begins by discussing ways to prevent security breaches in your system or data and prevent any ransomware attacks. He shares his own experience on how he maintains his website and the resources he is currently using. 
Sponsors

• Chuck's Resume Template
• Developer Book Club
• Become a Top 1% Dev with a Top End Devs Membership

Links

• Drifting Ruby
• DHH: We’re Leaving the Cloud 
•  ProxMox: An open-source virtualization platform
• AMD Risen 9 7950X 
• GPU computing with NVIDIA’s CUDA cores
• CERN’s LHC@Home volunteer computing platform
• COVID-19 HPC Consortium

Picks

• Dave - SteamDeck 
• Valentino - Flipper Zero

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