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Benedikt used to be a freelance software engineer and co-founded Userlist in 2017 as a side project with his co-founder Jane Portman. They went full-time on it in 2020. Benedikt enjoys database query optimization just as much as pushing around pixels on the front-end Show Notes https://userlist.com/ https://slowandsteadypodcast.com/ https://bsky.app/profile/benediktdeicke.com Sponsors Hosting for The Ruby on Rails Podcast is provided by Fireside.fm. If you want to start a podcast and are looking for hosting, visit fireside.fm/rails to get started. Alright, let’s talk about deploying code…
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by David Hill · English · Tech & Science
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