John Epperson

John Epperson is the Owner/Principal Software Engineer at Rock Agile Consulting

Media Entries

Inertia.js - The Modern Monolith with Jonathan Reinink - RUBY 659

Inertia.js - The Modern Monolith with Jonathan Reinink - RUBY 659

Ruby Rogues

In this episode of Ruby Rogues, guest Jonathan Reinink joins the Rogues to talk about what Inertia.js is and why...

Nov 06, 2024
The Hidden Gems of Ruby - RUBY 651

The Hidden Gems of Ruby - RUBY 651

Ruby Rogues

Valentino Stoll takes us on a tour of the "gems" of features built into the core Ruby language. We explore tips and...

Sep 11, 2024
Unlocking the Power of Functional Programming and Elm with Richard Feldman - RUBY 646

Unlocking the Power of Functional Programming and Elm with Richard Feldman - RUBY 646

Ruby Rogues

Richard Feldman - author of Elm in Action - joins the Rogues to discuss the advantages of Functional Programming and...

Jul 24, 2024
What is a Top 5% Developer? - RUBY 644

What is a Top 5% Developer? - RUBY 644

Ruby Rogues

The Rogues dive into who are top 5% developers, what they're doing and how to recognize them. They start out...

Jul 10, 2024
Stimulus, Hotwire, and Turbo, Oh My! - RUBY 607

Stimulus, Hotwire, and Turbo, Oh My! - RUBY 607

Ruby Rogues

If you’re wondering how to make sense of all these frameworks, you’ve come to the right podcast. In this episode, the...

Sep 13, 2023
The Significance Of Salary Transparency With Hilary Stohs-Krause - RUBY 580

The Significance Of Salary Transparency With Hilary Stohs-Krause - RUBY 580

Ruby Rogues

Hilary Stohs-Krause is the Co-Owner and VP at Ten Forward Consulting. Having already spoken at the RubyConf mini last...

Feb 01, 2023
Boosting Your App's Performance - RUBY 578

Boosting Your App's Performance - RUBY 578

Ruby Rogues

Gavin Morrice is a Senior Ruby Engineer at Cookpad. It is a food tech company and the largest online recipe platform....

Jan 18, 2023
Leaving Rails and the Journey Back with Trae Robrock - RUBY 577

Leaving Rails and the Journey Back with Trae Robrock - RUBY 577

Ruby Rogues

Returning guest, Trae Robrock is the founder of greenbits.com but eventually sold the company. In addition, he...

Jan 11, 2023
DevOps, Mentoring, and Careers with Kinsey Durham - RUBY 576

DevOps, Mentoring, and Careers with Kinsey Durham - RUBY 576

Ruby Rogues

Kinsey Durham Grace is an Enterprise Infrastructure Engineer at GitHub. She is also a lecturer at RailsBridge where...

Jan 04, 2023
Dealing with System Issues In Your Apps - RUBY 575

Dealing with System Issues In Your Apps - RUBY 575

Ruby Rogues

When working with software or applications, developers and programmers encounter a variety of distinct system issues...

Dec 28, 2022
Kaigi on Rails with Masafumi Okura - RUBY 569

Kaigi on Rails with Masafumi Okura - RUBY 569

Ruby Rogues

Masafumi Okura is a freelance software developer focusing on Ruby on Rails. He joined RubyKaigi 2022 as a helper...

Nov 16, 2022
How to Get Your Rails Models and Routes into Your Front End Framework - RUBY 559

How to Get Your Rails Models and Routes into Your Front End Framework - RUBY 559

Ruby Rogues

Today on the show, Máximo Mussini shares how your front-end framework can benefit from integrating rails models and...

Aug 17, 2022
Managing Files and Text in Rails with ActiveStorage and ActionText - Ruby 555

Managing Files and Text in Rails with ActiveStorage and ActionText - Ruby 555

Ruby Rogues

Today on the show, Charles shares about his current projects and inner workings related to managing files and text on...

Jul 20, 2022
Development on the Road - RUBY 552

Development on the Road - RUBY 552

Ruby Rogues

How do you develop remotely in new ecosystems such as when you are on vacation, in a coffee shop, or traveling for...

Jun 29, 2022
Kafka and Karafka Integrations with Maciej Mensfeld - RUBY 550

Kafka and Karafka Integrations with Maciej Mensfeld - RUBY 550

Ruby Rogues

Making his second appearance on the podcast, Maciej Mensfeld joins the show to share his latest developments with his...

Jun 15, 2022
Your Tools Matter: Should you change your tooling? - RUBY 549

Your Tools Matter: Should you change your tooling? - RUBY 549

Ruby Rogues

John Epperson and Luke Stutters discuss developer tools - whether those are the IDEs or Text Editors we use, the...

Jun 08, 2022
Desktop Apps in Ruby ft. Andy - RUBY 547

Desktop Apps in Ruby ft. Andy - RUBY 547

Ruby Rogues

Andy Maleh joins the show today to share his opensource desktop development library app for Ruby, Glimmer. Enjoy...

May 25, 2022
Isolator with Sidekiq - RUBY 543

Isolator with Sidekiq - RUBY 543

Ruby Rogues

Anton Ivanopoulos joins the show today to share his approach with using Isolator and Sidekiq to ensure simple,...

Apr 28, 2022
Propshaft with David Heinemeier Hansson (DHH) - RUBY 542

Propshaft with David Heinemeier Hansson (DHH) - RUBY 542

Ruby Rogues

David Heinemeier Hansson (DHH) creator of Ruby on Rails joins the Rogues to discuss the successor to the asset...

Apr 20, 2022
Understanding the Red Tape - RUBY 540

Understanding the Red Tape - RUBY 540

Ruby Rogues

If you’re a solo developer who’s making the switch to a company, this episode is for you. Today, the Ruby Rogues...

Apr 06, 2022
Service Objects for Legacy Projects with Petr Hlavicka - RUBY 539

Service Objects for Legacy Projects with Petr Hlavicka - RUBY 539

Ruby Rogues

Before you jump into legacy codebases and controllers, you need some info. In this episode, John sits down with Petr...

Mar 16, 2022
Async Ruby - RUBY 537

Async Ruby - RUBY 537

Ruby Rogues

Not a fan of typical Ruby? We got you. In this episode, the Rogues talk with Bruno Sutic, an Async Ruby developer who...

Mar 02, 2022
How to Migrate to Rails 7 - RUBY 535

How to Migrate to Rails 7 - RUBY 535

Ruby Rogues

Rails 7 is HERE and we’re pumped. In this episode, the Ruby Rogues discuss all things migration, including the BEST...

Feb 16, 2022
Making Ruby Prettier with Kevin Newton - RUBY 534

Making Ruby Prettier with Kevin Newton - RUBY 534

Ruby Rogues

If you feel like Ruby could use a makeover, you’re not alone. In this episode, the Rogues sit down with Kevin Newton,...

Feb 09, 2022
Stimulus, Hotwire, and Turbo, Oh My! - RUBY 531

Stimulus, Hotwire, and Turbo, Oh My! - RUBY 531

Ruby Rogues

If you’re wondering how to make sense of all these frameworks, you’ve come to the right podcast. In this episode, the...

Jan 19, 2022
Ractors ft. Ivo Anjo - RUBY 527

Ractors ft. Ivo Anjo - RUBY 527

Ruby Rogues

Ivo Anjo joins the Rogues to discuss Ractors in Ruby and how they can be used. They're not actors as they appear in...

Dec 15, 2021
MailCatcher ft. Samuel Cochran - RUBY 525

MailCatcher ft. Samuel Cochran - RUBY 525

Ruby Rogues

Samuel Cochran, creator and maintainer of MailCatcher joins the Rogues to discuss how he pulled EventMachine together...

Dec 01, 2021
Common Table Expressions in ActiveRecord ft. Vlado Cingel - RUBY 523

Common Table Expressions in ActiveRecord ft. Vlado Cingel - RUBY 523

Ruby Rogues

Vlado Cingel recounts his story where he needed common table expressions within SQL for a project he was working on...

Nov 17, 2021
Finding Memory Leaks in Ruby ft. Ulysse Buonomo - RUBY 521

Finding Memory Leaks in Ruby ft. Ulysse Buonomo - RUBY 521

Ruby Rogues

Ulysse Buonomo ran into an issue in the application he works on where the Heroku applications were taking up more and...

Nov 03, 2021
Encryption and Security in Ruby and Rails ft. Jorge Manrubia - RUBY 520

Encryption and Security in Ruby and Rails ft. Jorge Manrubia - RUBY 520

Ruby Rogues

Jorge Manrubia is a Security developer at BaseCamp. He discusses the encryption features added in Ruby on Rails and...

Oct 27, 2021
How to Thrive at Your (First) Dev Job ft. Riaz Virani - RUBY 519

How to Thrive at Your (First) Dev Job ft. Riaz Virani - RUBY 519

Ruby Rogues

Riaz Virani joins the Rogues to discuss how to thrive at your first Dev Job. He has five main ideas that when applied...

Oct 20, 2021
Polished Ruby Programming ft. Jeremy Evans - RUBY 518

Polished Ruby Programming ft. Jeremy Evans - RUBY 518

Ruby Rogues

<div>Jeremy Evans joins the Rogues to discuss the way he builds Ruby programs and the practices he put into his...

Oct 12, 2021
Docker and Ruby ft. Huzefa Biyawarwala - RUBY 516

Docker and Ruby ft. Huzefa Biyawarwala - RUBY 516

Ruby Rogues

Huzefa Biyawarwala joins the Rogues to discuss developer tooling around Docker and how it's used with Ruby and Rails....

Sep 29, 2021
Building Mobile Apps and Ruby ft. Maxwell Anselm - RUBY 514

Building Mobile Apps and Ruby ft. Maxwell Anselm - RUBY 514

Ruby Rogues

Maxwell Anselm discusses the options that he's found to build multi-platform mobile applications. The panel chimes in...

Sep 15, 2021
Going from Development to Production - RUBY 513

Going from Development to Production - RUBY 513

Ruby Rogues

Dave Kimura, John Epperson, Luke Stutters, Darren Broemmer, and Valentino Stoll talk about their experiences in...

Sep 01, 2021
Load Testing Rails Apps with JMeter ft. Milap Neupane - RUBY 509

Load Testing Rails Apps with JMeter ft. Milap Neupane - RUBY 509

Ruby Rogues

Milap Neupane joins the Rogues to talk about how to know how robust your Rails apps are. Sometimes you forget to...

Aug 04, 2021
Debugging Ruby ft. Fabio Perrella - RUBY 508

Debugging Ruby ft. Fabio Perrella - RUBY 508

Ruby Rogues

Fabio Perrella joins the Rogues to discuss debugging Ruby programs and how to find problems across your code and your...

Jul 28, 2021
What's Cooking in Rails 7 featuring Jason Dinsmore - RUBY 506

What's Cooking in Rails 7 featuring Jason Dinsmore - RUBY 506

Ruby Rogues

Jason Dinsmore went spelunking through the changelogs for Rails and pulled out the latest features for the most...

Jul 14, 2021
The Ruby Fiber Scheduler with Wander Hillen - RUBY 505

The Ruby Fiber Scheduler with Wander Hillen - RUBY 505

Ruby Rogues

The Ruby fiber scheduler is a powerful new feature in Ruby that we brought Wander Hillen along to discuss with us....

Jul 07, 2021
Models in Migrations? and a Year of Open Source Contributions with Jake Yesbeck - RUBY 504

Models in Migrations? and a Year of Open Source Contributions with Jake Yesbeck - RUBY 504

Ruby Rogues

Jake Yesbeck joins the Rogues this week to talk about how to handle models and data migrations in your Ruby on Rails...

Jun 30, 2021
Refactoring to Five Lines of Code with Christian Clausen - RUBY 502

Refactoring to Five Lines of Code with Christian Clausen - RUBY 502

Ruby Rogues

Christian Clausen is the author of the book Five Lines of Code in the Manning Early Access Program. He advocates for...

Jun 16, 2021
AiA 304: What is a Top 5% Developer?

AiA 304: What is a Top 5% Developer?

Adventures in Angular

This is a repeat episode of Ruby Rogues 485 The Rogues dive into who are top 5% developers, what they're doing and...

Feb 02, 2021
RUBY 486: Authorization Hacks

RUBY 486: Authorization Hacks

Ruby Rogues

Chuck has been fighting an authorization system in an application he's building in his spare time. John, Dave, and...

Feb 02, 2021
RUBY 485: What is a Top 5% Developer?

RUBY 485: What is a Top 5% Developer?

Ruby Rogues

The Rogues dive into who are top 5% developers, what they're doing and how to recognize them. They start out...

Jan 26, 2021
RUBY 484: Bootcamps: Bad or Badass

RUBY 484: Bootcamps: Bad or Badass

Ruby Rogues

We discuss the value of bootcamps and whether new developers should consider them. We also touch a little bit on...

Jan 19, 2021
RUBY 483: Unlocking the Power of Functional Programming and Elm with Richard Feldman

RUBY 483: Unlocking the Power of Functional Programming and Elm with Richard Feldman

Ruby Rogues

Richard Feldman - author of Elm in Action - joins the Rogues to discuss the advantages of Functional Programming and...

Jan 05, 2021
RUBY 482: Successfully Onboarding a Junior Engineer in Three Steps with Emily Giurleo

RUBY 482: Successfully Onboarding a Junior Engineer in Three Steps with Emily Giurleo

Ruby Rogues

Onboarding and leveling up Junior developers can be tricky. Emily Giurleo joins the Rogues to discuss the process for...

Dec 30, 2020
RUBY 481: Why We Worry About All the Wrong Things with Hilary Stohs-Krause

RUBY 481: Why We Worry About All the Wrong Things with Hilary Stohs-Krause

Ruby Rogues

Hilary Stohs-Krause addresses the things that we have strong emotional reactions to as developers that maybe we...

Dec 23, 2020
RUBY 479: Mistakes Were Made with Jesse Spevack

RUBY 479: Mistakes Were Made with Jesse Spevack

Ruby Rogues

Jesse Spevack tells us about a conference topic he gave where big mistakes were made at his company. Having lived...

Nov 26, 2020
RUBY 478: 2020 Ruby on Rails Community Survey Results

RUBY 478: 2020 Ruby on Rails Community Survey Results

Ruby Rogues

2,049 members of the Rails community from 92 countries kindly contributed their thoughts on tools, frameworks, and...

Nov 17, 2020
RUBY 477: Black-Belt Debugging with Chelsea Troy

RUBY 477: Black-Belt Debugging with Chelsea Troy

Ruby Rogues

In this episode of Ruby Rogues, Chelsea Troy teaches us to hone our debugging skills to a razor-sharp edge. We learn...

Nov 10, 2020
RUBY 476: SQL, Arel and the Dark Side of ActiveRecord with Eric Hayes

RUBY 476: SQL, Arel and the Dark Side of ActiveRecord with Eric Hayes

Ruby Rogues

In this episode of Ruby Rogues, Eric Hayes joins us with the story of his journey into the dark, undocumented depths...

Nov 03, 2020
RR 475: Succeeding to Your Next CodingPhase with Joe Santos Garcia

RR 475: Succeeding to Your Next CodingPhase with Joe Santos Garcia

Ruby Rogues

In this episode of Ruby Rogues, Joe Santos Garcia from CodingPhase joins the panel to talk about how to successfully...

Oct 27, 2020
RR 474: React on Rails V12 - Don't Shave That Yak! with Justin Gordon

RR 474: React on Rails V12 - Don't Shave That Yak! with Justin Gordon

Ruby Rogues

React on Rails version 12 brings major improvements for hot reloading and bundle splitting. Justin Gordon talks about...

Oct 13, 2020
RR 473: GraphQL Doesn't Need To Be Hell with Dmitry Tsepelev

RR 473: GraphQL Doesn't Need To Be Hell with Dmitry Tsepelev

Ruby Rogues

Different doesn’t need to be worse. Dmitry Tsepelev tells us how to make the most of using GraphQL with Rails, the...

Oct 06, 2020
RR 472: Inertia.js - The Modern Monolith with Jonathan Reinink

RR 472: Inertia.js - The Modern Monolith with Jonathan Reinink

Ruby Rogues

In this episode of Ruby Rogues, guest Jonathan Reinink joins the Rogues to talk about what Inertia.js is and why...

Sep 29, 2020
RR 471: Sorbet with Ufuk Kayserilioglu

RR 471: Sorbet with Ufuk Kayserilioglu

Ruby Rogues

In this episode of Ruby Rogues, we talk with Ufuk about how Shopify made the transition to using Sorbet and about the...

Sep 22, 2020
RR 470: Performance Improvement of Ruby 3.0 JIT with Takashi Kokubun

RR 470: Performance Improvement of Ruby 3.0 JIT with Takashi Kokubun

Ruby Rogues

In this episode of Ruby Rogues, the panelists discuss the progress, problems, and strategies for implementing JIT in...

Sep 15, 2020
RR 469: Refactoring with James Dabbs

RR 469: Refactoring with James Dabbs

Ruby Rogues

In this episode of Ruby Rogues, we talk to James Dabbs as we explore a number of subjects and topics around refactoring

Sep 01, 2020
RR 468: Diversity Matters: Diversifying Your Applicant Pool with Tricia Ball

RR 468: Diversity Matters: Diversifying Your Applicant Pool with Tricia Ball

Ruby Rogues

Tricia Ball talks to the Rogues about diversity in tech. We discuss the declining numbers of women in tech (and the...

Aug 18, 2020
RR 466: Beating Impostor Syndrome with Dylan Andrews

RR 466: Beating Impostor Syndrome with Dylan Andrews

Ruby Rogues

In this episode of Ruby Rogues guest, Dylan Andrews (GoNoodle) shares his journey from pro-drummer to junior...

Aug 04, 2020
RR 465: WebAuthn in Ruby with Gonzalo Rodriguez and Braulio Martinez

RR 465: WebAuthn in Ruby with Gonzalo Rodriguez and Braulio Martinez

Ruby Rogues

As the world becomes more security conscious, we need to think about the ways we allow people to authenticate to our...

Jul 28, 2020
RR 464: PWAs on Rails with John Beatty

RR 464: PWAs on Rails with John Beatty

Ruby Rogues

John Beatty joins the Rogues to talk about building Progressive Web Applications on Ruby on Rails. He walks the...

Jul 21, 2020
RR 463: Can We Fix What We Can't See? with James Thompson

RR 463: Can We Fix What We Can't See? with James Thompson

Ruby Rogues

In this episode of Ruby Rogues, James Thompson, a Software Architect at Mavenlink, delves into how to address errors...

Jul 14, 2020
RR 462: Graphiti, REST, and GraphQL with Lee Richmond

RR 462: Graphiti, REST, and GraphQL with Lee Richmond

Ruby Rogues

Lee Richmond is one of the primary developers behind the Graphiti library for Ruby. Lee describes Graphiti as the...

Jun 30, 2020
RR 460: How to Brainstorm Introverts with DeeDee Lavinder

RR 460: How to Brainstorm Introverts with DeeDee Lavinder

Ruby Rogues

Dee Dee Lavinder talks with the Rogues about how we can create space for introverts to participate in discussions,...

May 19, 2020
RR 459: Mutation Testing with Dave Aronson

RR 459: Mutation Testing with Dave Aronson

Ruby Rogues

Dave Aronson joins the Rogues to talk about Mutation Testing in Ruby. The conversation starts with a discussion of...

May 12, 2020
RR 458: Rules of OOP in Pictures with Ivan Nemytchenko

RR 458: Rules of OOP in Pictures with Ivan Nemytchenko

Ruby Rogues

Ivan Nemytchenko is a freelancer. He's a speaker and conference organizer. Ivan spoke at RailsConf about abstract...

May 05, 2020
RR 456: Ruby for Good :) with Sean Marcia

RR 456: Ruby for Good :) with Sean Marcia

Ruby Rogues

Sean Marcia organizes Ruby For Good—an organization for building technology to solve the world's problems and an in...

Apr 21, 2020
RR 455: What's Up, Rogues?

RR 455: What's Up, Rogues?

Ruby Rogues

This episode is a roundup discussion about what the podcast hosts have going on these days. John talks about going...

Apr 14, 2020
RR 454: Music and Factory Bot with Daniel Colson

RR 454: Music and Factory Bot with Daniel Colson

Ruby Rogues

Daniel Colson, from Thoughtbot and maintainer of Factory Bot, joins Dave Kimura, Luke Sutters, Tom Rossi, and John...

Apr 07, 2020
RR 453: Ruby Next: Get future Ruby changes now with Vladimir Dementyev

RR 453: Ruby Next: Get future Ruby changes now with Vladimir Dementyev

Ruby Rogues

We talk with Vladimir Dementyev about Ruby Next, its use cases and why you might want to get features from newer...

Mar 31, 2020
RR 452: The History and Personalities of Ruby with Chris O’Sullivan

RR 452: The History and Personalities of Ruby with Chris O’Sullivan

Ruby Rogues

Chris O’Sullivan joins the Rogues to talk about the people who influenced Ruby and how it’s shaped the community and...

Mar 17, 2020
 RR 451: Pair Programming with Ian Norris

RR 451: Pair Programming with Ian Norris

Ruby Rogues

David Kimura and John Epperson talk with Ian Norris on his experiences with Pair Programming. We discuss...

Mar 03, 2020
RR 450: Writing Ruby for the Apple II with Colin Fulton

RR 450: Writing Ruby for the Apple II with Colin Fulton

Ruby Rogues

Colin Fulton has written a Ruby implementation in assembly for the Apple II. He's also got a fondness for the...

Feb 25, 2020
RR 449: Everything worth doing has already been done with Zachary Schroeder

RR 449: Everything worth doing has already been done with Zachary Schroeder

Ruby Rogues

In this episode of Ruby Rogues, Zachary and the panelists speak about doing small projects. They cover half-done...

Feb 18, 2020
RR 448: How To Avoid Catastrophes with Jon Druse

RR 448: How To Avoid Catastrophes with Jon Druse

Ruby Rogues

Jon Druse is a developer from Tennessee and has been using Rails for 15 years. He starts the show by sharing some of...

Feb 04, 2020
RR 447: All About Kafka and Oracle with Bob Quillin and Karthik Gaekwad

RR 447: All About Kafka and Oracle with Bob Quillin and Karthik Gaekwad

Ruby Rogues

Bob Quillin and Karthik Gaekwad are on the Oracle developer relations team. Karthik has been on Ruby Rogues...

Jan 21, 2020
RR 446: Development Environments

RR 446: Development Environments

Ruby Rogues

Today the panel is talking about their development environments and preferences. Most of them run on Macs, but they...

Jan 14, 2020
RR 445: Location Services with Mithun Dhar

RR 445: Location Services with Mithun Dhar

Ruby Rogues

Mithun leads development relations at HERE Technologies which specializes in building location services and location...

Jan 07, 2020
DevOps 015: Shiplane with John Epperson

DevOps 015: Shiplane with John Epperson

Adventures in DevOps

This episode of Adventures in DevOps is joined by John Epperson. John is a developer and has worked in DevOps for his...

Nov 05, 2019
RR 433: ShipLane with John Epperson

RR 433: ShipLane with John Epperson

Ruby Rogues

John Epperson has been doing ruby for 12 years and is a friend of Andrew Mason. He got into Docker a couple years ago...

Oct 08, 2019

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