We talk about lessons learned from teachable moments both in the moment and decades later.

  • Teachable moment
  • Safe Operations for High Volume PostgreSQL by Paul Gross
  • How to Create Postgres Indexes Concurrently in ActiveRecord Migrations by Dan Croak
  • PostgreSQL COPY FROM
  • Guarding against truncating the production database in Suspenders
  • Have Some (Referential) Integrity with Foreign Keys
  • "Inheritance is not for sharing code" tweet from Sarah Mei
  • "Inheritance is for specialization, not for sharing code" from Sandi Metz' "Nothing is Something" talk at RailsConf
  • Let's Not by Joe Ferris
  • Mystery Guest by Dan Croak
  • A modem pool
  • Diesel née YAQB