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2. Ruby, Regexes and Risk: Aaron Patterson Explains Why Hiring Open Source Developers Will Make Your Company Stronger

Open source developers are often taken for granted. They spend their nights and weekends toiling away, often in obscurity, to bring developers and their companies the tools and frameworks they've come to depend on. Smart companies are beginning to realize that these critical pieces of infrastructure are too important to trust to an effectively volunteer staff; they want ready access to the developers of their tooling and their skills.

In recent years it has become increasingly common for companies to bring strategic open source developers on full-time. The developers are ideally afforded the opportunity to maintain the pace of their work on their open source projects, but they're also around to lend support and mentorship, and to assist with complex technical problems related to their area of expertise.

1. Running Grails in Production

Simple tech stacks don't get enough love. Andrew Garcia talks to us about Goodshuffle and the advantages of building on top of Grails, JDK8, and a trustworthy tech stack.

Platform Continuous Delivery

Continuous delivery is a model for deploying small, frequent changes to an application. In a continuous delivery workflow, code changes that are pushed to a repository set off a build process that spins up a new version of the application.

A Beautiful Thing

Harold Giménez, Heroku postgres leader, talks about Postgres, data management, and beer brewing in this episode.

Interview With Kenneth Reitz (2 of 2)

This episode, in two parts, is an interview with Kenneth Reitz, Heroku Engineer, and Python product owner where he talks about his first user facing software SlashWear, Python requests, Heroku, and more.

Interview With Kenneth Reitz (1 of 2)

This episode, in two parts, is an interview with Kenneth Reitz, Heroku Engineer, and Python product owner where he talks about his first user facing software SlashWear, Python requests, Heroku, and more.

Python Requests

In this episode, Kenneth Reitz, Heroku Engineer, talks about how he started programming, his first user facing software SlashWear, Python requests, and more.