It Depends

34 minutes 44 seconds
40: Continuous Delivery
##Things Mentioned
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1 June 2018, 12:00 pm
32 minutes 57 seconds
39: Switching Between Projects
##Things Mentioned
- Netflix's Chaos Monkey
- Hitting the High Notes, Joel Spolsky
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1 May 2018, 12:00 pm
31 minutes 27 seconds
38: Moving Beyond Mockups to Reality
##Things Mentioned
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1 April 2018, 12:00 pm
24 minutes 25 seconds
37: Avoid Re-work with Low-fidelity Mockups
##Things Mentioned
- Bootstrap
- Material UI
- Balsamiq
- Visio
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2 March 2018, 1:00 pm
37 minutes 29 seconds
36: Balancing Code and Meetings
On this episode, Ben, Mo, Daniel, and Jesse discuss the nature of doing development work that is not strictly writing code all the time. They try to find the appropriate balance between time spent coding and time spent in meetings. This topic includes some great tips on how to do meetings efficiently and effectively. There's even a rousing few minutes about what defines a meeting.

##Things Mentioned
- Know When to Escalate Communication, Scott Hanselman
- 30 Tips for Successful Communication as a Remote Worker, Scott Hanselman
- Google Hangouts
- Zoom
- GoToMeeting
- Skype
- Slack
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2 February 2018, 1:00 pm
29 minutes 18 seconds
35: Alexa & Voice Development
On this episode, Daniel, Jesse, and Ben discuss all the recent hype around your favorite voice assistant speakers. They talk through the reasons for current spikes in popularity of voice speakers such as Amazon Echo and Google Home. Most importantly, the engineers discuss how to develop for and take advantage of these new and exciting platforms.

##Things Mentioned
- Amazon Alexa
- Apple Siri
- Google Assistant
- Amazon Echo
- Apple HomePod
- Google Home
- Sonos
- Dragon NaturalSpeaking
- Microsoft LUIS
- Raspberry Pi
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19 January 2018, 1:00 pm
41 minutes 29 seconds
34: How to Present at Tech Conferences
On this episode, Daniel, Mo, Brian, and Ben discuss the necessary steps toward becoming a presenter at a tech conference. This includes selecting a conference, choosing a topic, crafting an abstract, mastering the topic, preparing a slide deck, and giving the presentation. Listen in for specific presentation tips and tricks!

##Things Mentioned
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5 January 2018, 1:00 pm
31 minutes 5 seconds
33: How and When to Invest in R&D
On this episode, Daniel, Jesse, and Brian talk about research and development and its place in an agency. In addition to defining R&D, they discuss how to manage and spend research time well. This conversation also includes more on how to keep up with articles and technologies, which is expanded from a previous episode, namely It Depends 10: Should I learn this new technology?.

##Things Mentioned
- .NET Core
- React Native
- Terraform
- Amazon Web Services (AWS)
- Docker
- Feedly
- Google Reader
- Curated
- Postgres Weekly
- .NET News Weekly
- Javascript Frameworks: Elixir, Phoenix, Angular, Ember
- Templating Languages: Ruby's ERB, HAML
- Spree
- Prettier
- CoffeeScript
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22 December 2017, 1:00 pm
30 minutes 34 seconds
32: DevOps: Scaling Out or Scaling Up?:
On this episode, Daniel, Jesse, and Mo embark on the final episode in our DevOps series. Specifically, the topic is scaling to handle additional load for a site in production. Do you handle the traffic by buying more servers or by growing existing servers?

##Things Mentioned
- Amazon S3
- VMware
- NoSQL
- Heroku
- F5 Servers
- Sifter
- Cloudflare
- New Relic
- Bugsnag
- Apache
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8 December 2017, 1:00 pm
32 minutes 21 seconds
31: Chatbot Skills with Daniel Pritchett
On this episode, our very own chatbot expert, Daniel Pritchett, joins Mo and Ben to discuss chat as a service. While there is a lot of hype around chatbots recently, these engineers decode chat as a platform and engage in all kinds of fun along the way. Listen in to hear about the implicit increases in efficiency, knowledge sharing, and time savings that can come with chatbots. Also, look out for Daniel’s talk at Southeast Ruby in October and his upcoming book!

##Things Mentioned
- Github’s hubot
- Astro Mail
- Crowdfire
- Slackbot
- Facebook Messenger
- Memtech
- Memtech's Elvis Bot
- IFTTT (If This Then That)
- Heroku ChatOps
- Jira
- Jenkins
- ELIZA
- Zork
- Microsoft Bot Framework
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15 September 2017, 10:00 pm
26 minutes 55 seconds
30: Application Hosting with DevOps in "The Cloud"
On this episode, Ben, Daniel, Jesse, and Mo discuss the cloud and application hosting. The conversation includes services such as Heroku, Azure, and Amazon Web Services (AWS). Listen in to hear about how developers make the decision to use platform as a service or infrastructure as a service to manage and host their applications.

##Things Mentioned
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8 September 2017, 12:00 pm
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