Eddie Galindo is an engineering lead at Ascend and Kagen Hearn is a senior software engineer there, working on a Rails app that helps insurance agencies move and reconcile money. They also get into feature flags versus database configuration, and where AI tooling fits in when the software you ship moves money.
Eddie Galindo is an engineering lead at Ascend and Kagen Hearn is a senior software engineer there, working on a Rails app that helps insurance agencies move and reconcile money.
They also get into feature flags versus database configuration, and where AI tooling fits in when the software you ship moves money.
Robby, Eddie, and Kagen get into why Ascend still runs one Rails monolith five years in, what needed attention when much larger customers started arriving, and how the team went about finding the real...
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Eddie Galindo is an engineering lead at Ascend and Kagen Hearn is a senior software engineer there, working on a Rails app that helps insurance agencies move and reconcile money. They also get into feature flags versus database configuration, and where AI tooling fits in when the software you ship moves money. Robby, Eddie, and Kagen get into why Ascend still runs one Rails monolith five years in, what needed attention when much larger customers started arriving, and how the team went about finding the real limits of their data ingestion pipeline.
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