Panel:

Charles Max Wood

Dave Kimura

David Richards

Special Guest: 

Amit Choudary

In this episode, the Ruby Rogues speaks with Amit Choudary, Amit is based in India as a Ruby and Ruby on Rails, Javascript, and Fullstack Developer. Amit is working with a company called Big Binary.  Big Binary builds web apps and a variety of mobile applications.  Amit mentions his informative blog on Ruby 2.5 at blog at Big Binary.

Amit and the panel discuss app failure emergencies and holidays. Importantly this episode is about how holidays affect the schedules, staff, and emergency deploying apps or repairing crashes and servers. This is a great episode to learn about strategies to recover from crashes, emergencies, and disaster recovery,

In particular, we dive pretty deep on:


Holiday and emergency deployment
Staff availability is the biggest problem during that holidays
Coming in on holidays
"The Server is Down email”
Adapting and avoiding the email
Crashes - stories
Redundant storage array
Disaster recovery
Having a plan
Communication
Having the team in-place
Dealing with management and giving updates
Covering things during holidays
Documentations
Deployment
Running tests, CI Code
Guard
Continuous deployment
Rolling back
Database
Debugging
Irreversible migration
Risk assessment
Mistakes happen
and much much more.


Links: 


https://www.bigbinary.com
https://blog.bigbinary.com
@bigbinary


Picks:

David


Threat Models
Human Heart, Cosmic Heart 


Dave


Electro Voice RE20
Rails Active Storage


Chuck


Eternium
Atari - Sega Games
Smoker
Instant Pot


Amit


2.5 Ruby

Special Guest: Amit Choudary.