YAGNI

Matt and Aaron talk about programming books and try to answer the question "do we need them?" This season of YAGNI was made possible by our friends at Flipper Cloud [https://www.flippercloud.io/?utm_source=yagni] - Are big launches stressing you out? Then you need feature flags! Flipper Cloud helps your team deploy the code now and then roll out features when you’re good and ready. Get started for free at flippercloud.io [https://www.flippercloud.io/?utm_source=yagni] Aaron Francis on Twitter [https://twitter.com/aarondfrancis] // PlanetScale [https://planetscale.com/] Matt Swanson on Twitter [https://twitter.com/_swanson] // arrows.to [https://arrows.to/] Aaron's shed [https://twitter.com/aarondfrancis/status/1333866090573811723] Aaron reading printed docs on the beach [https://twitter.com/aarondfrancis/status/1638191350653890569] SQL Window Functions [https://mode.com/sql-tutorial/sql-window-functions/] The Pragmatic Programmer [https://pragprog.com/titles/tpp20/the-pragmatic-programmer-20th-anniversary-edition/] The Timeless Way of Building [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Timeless_Way_of_Building] Culture is Stuck [https://lindynewsletter.beehiiv.com/p/culture-stuck] Use the Index, Luke! [https://use-the-index-luke.com/] MySQL for Developers course [https://planetscale.com/learn/courses/mysql-for-developers/introduction/course-introduction] Why do programmers use books as monitor stands? [https://www.quora.com/Why-do-some-programmers-use-textbooks-as-monitor-stands]

Matt and Nate talk about Redis and try to answer the question "do we need it?" This season of YAGNI was made possible by our friends at Flipper Cloud [https://www.flippercloud.io/?utm_source=yagni] - Are big launches stressing you out? Then you need feature flags! Flipper Cloud helps your team deploy the code now and then roll out features when you’re good and ready. Get started for free at flippercloud.io [https://www.flippercloud.io/?utm_source=yagni] Nate Berkopec on Twitter [https://twitter.com/nateberkopec] // Speedshop [https://www.speedshop.co/] Matt Swanson on Twitter [https://twitter.com/_swanson] // arrows.to [https://arrows.to/] "Redis is not faster than your database" [https://twitter.com/nateberkopec/status/1699422215500947687] "Your data fits in RAM" [https://twitter.com/garybernhardt/status/600783770925420546?lang=en] March of progress [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/March_of_Progress] neo4j [https://github.com/neo4j/neo4j] sidekiq [https://github.com/sidekiq/sidekiq] ACID [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ACID] kredis [https://github.com/rails/kredis] Wafris [https://wafris.org/] "Running Sidekiq...with a volatile eviction policy" [https://twitter.com/nateberkopec/status/1333863949238931464?lang=en] Solid Queue [https://island94.org/2023/10/reflections-on-good-job-for-solid-queue] Solid Cache [https://github.com/rails/solid_cache] The open source gift exchange [https://world.hey.com/dhh/the-open-source-gift-exchange-2171e0f0] puma/puma [https://github.com/puma/puma] The Silver Rule [https://www.fabiostrassle.me/post/silver-rule/]

Matt and Jason talk about Service Objects and try to answer the question "do we need them?" This season of YAGNI was made possible by our friends at Flipper Cloud [https://www.flippercloud.io/?utm_source=yagni] - Are big launches stressing you out? Then you need feature flags! Flipper Cloud helps your team deploy the code now and then roll out features when you’re good and ready. Get started for free at flippercloud.io [https://www.flippercloud.io/?utm_source=yagni] Jason Swett on Twitter [https://twitter.com/JasonSwett] // Code with Jason [https://www.codewithjason.com/] Matt Swanson on Twitter [https://twitter.com/_swanson] // arrows.to [https://arrows.to/] Jason's Snail Mail newsletter [https://www.codewithjason.com/snail-mail-newsletter/] Brevity is the soul of wit [https://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/brevity]

Matt and Josh talk about automated testing and try to answer the question "do we need them?" This season of YAGNI was made possible by our friends at Flipper Cloud [https://www.flippercloud.io/?utm_source=yagni] - Are big launches stressing you out? Then you need feature flags! Flipper Cloud helps your team deploy the code now and then roll out features when you’re good and ready. Get started for free at flippercloud.io [https://www.flippercloud.io/?utm_source=yagni] Josh Pigford on Twitter [https://twitter.com/Shpigford] // Detangle [https://detangle.ai/] Matt Swanson on Twitter [https://twitter.com/_swanson] // arrows.to [https://arrows.to/] Wittgenstein's Ruler [https://www.jaakkoj.com/concepts/wittgensteins-ruler] Why doesn't Stripe have a /mrr endpoint? [https://twitter.com/mattwensing/status/1529852283667853312] GitHub Project Paper Cuts [https://github.blog/2018-08-28-announcing-paper-cuts/] Baremetrics [https://baremetrics.com/] Maybe [https://goodbye.maybe.co/] Laser Tweets [https://shop.lasertweets.co/] Cedar & Sail [https://cedarandsail.com/] The best restaurant in the world [https://www.mcdonalds.com/us/en-us.html] Kim Kardashian - Kimoji app [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kimoji] Cursor AI Editor [https://cursor.sh/] Stated vs Revealed preferences [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revealed_preference]

Matt and Trevor talk about GraphQL and try to answer the question "do we need it?" (Bonus hot takes on VCR snapshot testing) This season of YAGNI was made possible by our friends at Flipper Cloud [https://www.flippercloud.io/?utm_source=yagni] - Are big launches stressing you out? Then you need feature flags! Flipper Cloud helps your team deploy the code now and then roll out features when you’re good and ready. Get started for free at flippercloud.io [https://www.flippercloud.io/?utm_source=yagni] Trevor Turk on Twitter [https://twitter.com/trevorturk] // Hello Weather [https://helloweather.com/] Matt Swanson on Twitter [https://twitter.com/_swanson] // arrows.to [https://arrows.to/] GraphQL: The Documentary [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=783ccP__No8] GraphiQL [https://github.com/graphql/graphiql] n+1 problems in GraphQL [https://medium.com/the-marcy-lab-school/what-is-the-n-1-problem-in-graphql-dd4921cb3c1a] BFF: Backend for Frontend [https://samnewman.io/patterns/architectural/bff/] Graph Theory [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graph_theory] Schema stitching [https://www.apollographql.com/blog/backend/graphql-schema-stitching/] Bonus: VCR [https://github.com/vcr/vcr]