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Starting a Ruby on Rails project

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Thomas Riboulet
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I've recently started training a few people on RSpec. Since we are in a Ruby on Rails ecosystem, one of the questions that came up was about how to get a simple Ruby on Rails project started and configured to use a PostgreSQL database. So, here follows the

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Through the Stack 2.13 (Week 18)

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Thomas Riboulet
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This week we talk about what I learned while looking into how our brains and bodies have evolved with stress.

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Through the Stack 2.12 (Week 17)

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Thomas Riboulet
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Over the last four weeks, we've covered essential topics that can significantly impact your team's efficiency and productivity. Let's review those.

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Through the Stack 2.11 (Week 16)

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Thomas Riboulet
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This week's episode focuses on the topic of CI/CD and automation. Many teams don't start their automation journey early enough, and others don't use it enough. As usual, a few links to content caught my eye this week.

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Through the Stack 2-10 (Week 15)

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Thomas Riboulet
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This week's episode focuses on the topic of Backlog bloating. This is a common issue for many teams. We look into the pattern and one solution to it. As usual, we have a few links to content that caught my eye this week.

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A short list of analytics

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Thomas Riboulet
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A short list of Analytics tools you can use to monitor how your site is doing. Just enough for you to choose one in 2 minutes and get running with a good solution.

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Through the Stack 2-09 (Week 14)

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Thomas Riboulet
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This week's newsletter focuses on the concept of "Fast iterations." It is an excellent example of an idea that can help anyone within the engineering team, including junior, mid-level, senior engineers, and above.

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Through the Stack 2-08 (Week 13)

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Thomas Riboulet
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This episode focuses on the Pareto Principle or 80/20 rule. It can aid software engineers in avoiding scope creep and decision paralysis. We discuss how applying the 80/20 rule through strategic, operational, and tactical questioning can help achieve goals efficiently.

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The failure factory

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Thomas Riboulet
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Obsession with shiny objects and pressure to deliver on promises leads to low morale, technical debt, and high turnover. Stop, regroup, and clean up if necessary. To build sustainable practices, focus on vision, strategy, communication, and shared responsibility.

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Through the Stack 2-06 (Week 11)

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Thomas Riboulet
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Continuing on last week's talk about the State of DevOps report we dig into some concepts from the report's and DORA's research recommendations.

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Slack and WIP limits

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Thomas Riboulet
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Some weeks ago, I spotted in my threads an article with an unusual title, "Efficiency is the Enemy". I was intrigued: with such a title, surely it must be either a good one challenging the idea of Efficiency or an ironic one. I didn't take time

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