Hello, I'm
Dustin Goodman

I was on the Compressed.fm podcast the other day and was asked for my recommended reading list for engineering leaders/managers. I've been recommending these to a lot of people recently so I threw together my list to share out. I hope you enjoy some of these!

In our most recent stream, we were updating our tests and discovered that we had a cascading deletion that was failing. We spent a lot of time debugging as there wasn't good documentation on the subject. This is a post describing the solution and how to handle this in Rails.

One of my engineers asked me a question regarding how to properly roll out a change to a database operation that involved an expensive query in an ecosystem that was poorly documented and had a lack of consistency among deployment environments. This post is a summary of my response.