Maintainable Software Podcast

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🔊 Catch up on this episode with @robbyonrails.com and Sara Jackson as they talk about why teams should care about how their app behaves when third-party services go down.
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📻 Join @robbyonrails.com as Sara Jackson discusses how good documentation can make teams faster, more confident, and less reliant on institutional memory.
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📻 Catch up with Robby Russell to hear Joel Chippindale define maintainable software as “easy to keep changing” and share his experience with technical due diligence.
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📻 Join @robbyonrails.com & Joel Chippindale for this week's episode as they discuss:
🔺 Challenging the “iron triangle” of speed, cost, and quality.
🥅 How shifting business goals can reduce maintainability
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🔉 Catch up with @Robbyonrails.com and guest Melanie Sumner as she shares her views on:
👩‍💻 The trade-offs of being purposeful vs. fast when building design systems.
🖥️ How developer trust is earned through consistency and clear documentation.
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📻 Tune in to join @robbyonrails.com‬ for this week's episode as Melanie Sumner discusses the importance of aligning Figma APIs with component code to bridge the designer-engineer gap.
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🎧 Maintainable was just named one of the 30 Best Software Architecture Podcasts by @MillionPodcasts! Thanks to our guests and listeners who continue to engage in meaningful conversations about legacy code and building better software. 🛠️💬
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📻 Join @Robbyonrails.com and @JoeMasilotti.com as they explore when to take on technical debt and how to manage it. They also break down Hotwire Native and discuss the hidden costs of over-engineered setup scripts.
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📻 Tune in with @robbyonrails.com‬ as @joemasilotti.com discusses the importance of setting communication and collaboration expectations and the three questions Joe asks every client to understand how their team works.
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⌚ It's time to catch up with @Robbyonrails.com & hear about how at FlexCar, @Apiguy.dev led a bold replatforming effort from 70+ microservices back to a Ruby on Rails monolith.
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📻 @robbyonrails.com & @apiguy.dev reflect on why psychological safety is as important as code quality.
🖥️ Freedom emphasizes the need to “respect what came before” when maintaining legacy systems.
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Catch up with this episode as Mercedes Bernard defines well-maintained software as friendly, especially to early-career developers.
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Mercedes Bernard discusses how a missed state check flooded their system with no-op jobs and a simple one-line fix cut that load by 75%. Small changes can greatly impact legacy systems.
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📻 Catch up with @robbyonrails.com & @evanphx.dev as they discuss:
☑️ How to evaluate if an Open-Source project is “complete” versus “dead.”
👨‍💻 Why companies should invest in junior developers as a long-term benefit.
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📻 Join @evanphx.dev as he discusses with @robbyonrails.com the importance of confidence and clarity in coding over the pursuit of perfection. Don't miss it.
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Digging into the Maintainable Nails vault: a 2020 bonus episode featuring Duncan Thorpe, one of the planet’s boldest visionaries.

In today’s clip? Ethical young blood. Clone-sourced. Naturally.

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📻 Join @robbyonrails.com & @julialopez.dev as they discuss:
🧬 Git Blame's impact.
⚖️ Balancing refactoring and business priorities.
🧮 Harvest's billing system rewrite.
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📻 Catch up with @robbyonrails.com & Chris Salvato as they discuss:
✏️ Why removing extraneous features and code benefits maintainability
🛒 How large companies like Shopify grapple with legacy code
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Chris Salvato talks with @robbyonrails.com about the importance of understanding legacy code before making fixes. Chris emphasizes that consulting the original developers can provide clarity, reduce frustration, decrease technical debt & more!
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🏗️ Join @robbyonrails.com as guest Heimir Thor Sverrisson emphasizes the importance of architecture in building maintainable software.
🚧The challenges of poor architectural decisions.
⚖️ Explore balancing design with agile methodologies.
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🛠️ When a bank’s system started slowing to a crawl, their first fix was… adding more CPUs. The result? It didn’t help at all. 🤦‍♂️ Heimir Thor Sverrisson shares with @robbyonrails.com how they actually solved the problem.
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🎧 Catch up with @robbyonrails.com & Noémi Ványi as they discuss:
🖥️ Why developer autonomy matters in software sustainability.
✍️ Lessons from refactoring tightly coupled systems at Elastic.
🤺 The challenge of unanticipated user behavior in software.
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📻 Noémi Ványi joins @robbyonrails.com to discuss:
👩‍💻 Software maintainability.
📊 The importance of clear, decoupled modules.
✎ Why good tests and observability are essential for sustainable development.
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🔉 Join @robbyonrails.com & @mghaught.bsky.social as they discuss key takeaways:
📖 The importance of readability over cleverness.
⚖️ Balancing technical debt with business priorities.
🖥️ How software diverges from its original intent over time.
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