Jay Tennier: How Testing Platform Rainforest QA Tests Itself
About this episode
Jay Tennier discusses how Rainforest QA maintains its platform with a small team and shares insights on software development practices.
In this episode of On Rails, Robby is joined by Jay Tennier, Engineering Manager at Rainforest QA, where he's spent over seven years working across a long-lived Rails monolith and supporting services. They explore how Rainforest maintains their platform with a small team, and the practical decisions that come with that reality. Jay shares lessons from pulling microservices back into the monolith, why they wrap third-party services in adapters, and how they push analytics work to BigQuery inst...
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