Ever wonder why “I can build it in a weekend” becomes months of maintenance debt? We sit down with TypeSense CEO Jason Bosco. We get honest about developer psychology. Yes, you can build it—but not the years of nuance: typotolerance, geo search, semantic relevance, faceting, and the thousand edge cases you only learn from a large, vocal user base. We talk through when it’s smart to build (their custom observability agent for cost and resource constraints) and when buying is the rational choi...
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Ever wonder why “I can build it in a weekend” becomes months of maintenance debt? We sit down with TypeSense CEO Jason Bosco. We get honest about developer psychology. Yes, you can build it—but not the years of nuance: typotolerance, geo search, semantic relevance, faceting, and the thousand edge cases you only learn from a large, vocal user base. We talk through when it’s smart to build (their custom observability agent for cost and resource constraints) and when buying is the rational choi...
The real cost of small Ruby conference organizing: Success stories and financial risks
Friendly Show
1 hour 33 minutes
5 months ago
The real cost of small Ruby conference organizing: Success stories and financial risks
In this special crossover episode, hosts from The Friendly Show, Indie Rails, and Code with Jason come together to share the unvarnished truth about organizing Ruby conferences. Adrian (Friendly RB), Jeremy (Blue Ridge Ruby), and Jason (Sin City Ruby) open up about their journeys from conference attendees to organizers, revealing the financial realities, emotional highs and lows, and unexpected challenges of creating memorable experiences for the Ruby community. What You'll Learn: How much it...
Friendly Show
Ever wonder why “I can build it in a weekend” becomes months of maintenance debt? We sit down with TypeSense CEO Jason Bosco. We get honest about developer psychology. Yes, you can build it—but not the years of nuance: typotolerance, geo search, semantic relevance, faceting, and the thousand edge cases you only learn from a large, vocal user base. We talk through when it’s smart to build (their custom observability agent for cost and resource constraints) and when buying is the rational choi...
