Ben is joined by Bryan Helmkamp, the founder of CodeClimate. In Bryan's second appearance on the podcast, Ben and Bryan discuss the architecture behind CodeClimate, scaling the service, and growing the business. They also discuss speaking at conferences, proposal selection, two factor authentication and adding it to CodeClimate, marketing and content marketing, how to decide what to build and proving that it was worthwhile, strategies for testing at the beginning when you have few users, and Bryan reveals CodeClimate next big upcoming feature.

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<li><a href="https://github.com/mperham/sidekiq">Sidekiq</a></li>
<li><a href="http://jruby.org/">JRuby</a></li>
<li><a href="http://rubini.us/">Rubinius</a></li>
<li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Just-in-time_compilation">Just-in-time (JIT) compilation</a></li>
<li><a href="https://metrics.librato.com/">Librato metrics</a></li>
<li><a href="https://codeclimate.com/security-monitor">Rails Security Monitor by Code Climate</a></li>
<li><a href="http://bostonrb.org/presentations/rails-application-security-in-practice">Boston.rb, Rails Application Security in Practice</a>_</li>
<li><a href="http://railssecurity.com/">railssecurity.com</a></li>
</ul>

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41: This is the sausage being made

A podcast about the design, development, and business of great software. Each week thoughtbot's Chad Pytel is joined by the people who build and nurture the products we love.