On this week's episode, Steph and Chris trade some consulting and everyone comes out a winner. Steph talks about a win and a loss on the battlefield of refactoring, and Chris shares a related effort around identifying and removing unused code. Chris shares a pattern his team has been using with a special "demo" flag to provide small enhancements but otherwise keep sales demos within the product.
Steph then shares some friction related to using dependabot on her team's project that hints at more foundational ideas at the intersection of workflow, team dynamics, testing, deployment. And finally, Chris asks Steph for her thoughts on how best to add testing around the structure of API responses.
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Coverband (https://github.com/danmayer/coverband) for production code coverage
Flipper feature flag gem (https://github.com/jnunemaker/flipper)
Dependabot (https://dependabot.com/)
JSON Schema (https://json-schema.org/)
Swagger (https://swagger.io/)
rspec-request_snapshot (https://github.com/CareMessagePlatform/rspec-request_snapshot)
Say no to more process, say yes to trust (https://thoughtbot.com/blog/say-no-to-more-process-say-yes-to-trust)
One electron theory (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-electron_universe)