Podia at scale
A description of some of the scaling challenges at Podia. It's mostly about managing complexity rather than the traditional technical challenges you'd normally associate with Rails.
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The evolution of incident response at Podia
No one loves being on-call but I argue that it's better than constantly checking Slack for issues and you can structure it in a humane way.
Why Podia doesn't use review apps anymore
It turns out the review apps are fundamentally incompatible with short-lived branches. We prefer to use feature flags.
Moving off Heroku, slowly
This is the tale of how we gradually reduced our reliance on Heroku and found a position of power and opportunity
We're all in the arena
It is not the critic who counts, says every tech-bro doing something awful
The Manager's Stack
As my job has changed from developer to manager, so Sublime Text and iTerm have become less important to me. I’ve substituted my old toolset for a new bunch of tools that help me to manage the dev team at [Podia](https://www.podia.com).
Hard problems are valuable problems
I'm sitting in the faraday cage of the climbing centre, with no Internet access to distract me, so I'm watching the kids attempt the different walls. Some are starting on a slightly angled wall, then progressing to a vertical wall with lots of hand holds. Others are learning to tie ropes, belay and navigate overhangs etc. It got me thinking a lot about the problems we solve.
Tools of Podia (2020 edition)
Tools we used at Podia in 2020