blooberr

I've gotten varied responses from not micromanaging to nobody's intentionally trying to do a bad job. What's your take on this?

I'm really curious how everyone determines when is the right time to upgrade Rails versions.

How do you determine when is the right time to pull the trigger for a major upgrade? Like 2.3 -> 3.x? Or more recently, potentially to 5.x?

What is the process that you follow?

For all managers, how many people are reporting to you?

And at what number do you feel like it gets overwhelming? What have you tried to keep your organization running smoothly?

I look up the USD/yen exchange rate almost every day. Right now it's 119.96.

How about everyone? What do you track? Doesn't have to be work related!

I'd like to start a meetup in SF..

Any tips on locating a venue that can seat about 30 people?

This role often differs from company to company. What would be your description for a tech lead?

And along with that question, are you one? Would you want to become or stay one after what you've seen or experienced?

I need to support multiple deployments to various customers. Their servers could be on anything.

I can access them, but I don't want them to be able to directly checkout code from my Github repo.

The only tool I'm familiar with is Capistrano, and as far as I know, requires access on the production machine to the source control repository. That's not what I want in this situation... Any ideas or suggestions?

I'd like to build a service that streams out JSON packets over http like the twitter firehose.

I'm not sure how to begin constructing this - any pointers?

There's a ton of choices out there - etcd, zookeeper, and more.

What are some of the pitfalls I should be aware of?

Should I keep things simple and roll my own using Redis backed by sentinel/clustering?

Games need great UX design too!