Summary: <p>Ben has finalized the logo for his Refactoring Rails course and is currently getting the intro/outro animations and the sales site designed. He also finished the notes for all the videos and was very pleased with the final edit quality. The launch date for RefactoringRails.io is October 16th, 2017. He is still considering options for his post-launch speaking tour.</p> <p>At Drip, Derrick is deep in the backend scaling challenges with a lot of attention towards Black Friday for their ecommerce customers. They are looking to historical data in order to anticipate peak volumes and simulate high loads. One particular initiative they’re working on is “fair queuing” to improve Drip’s user experience under periods of high load. </p> <p>Today’s Topics Include:</p> <p>Refactoring Rails course development<br> Scaling challenges and Black Friday volume<br> High-load simulations<br> Amazon auto-scaling groups<br> Fair queuing<br> Open source libraries</p> <p>If you’re enjoying the show please give us your ratings and reviews in <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-art-of-product/id1243627144?mt=2">iTunes</a>.</p> <p>Links and resources:</p> <p><a href="http://elm-lang.org/">Elm</a><br> <a href="https://www.meetup.com/Boston-Elm/">Boston Elm Meetup</a><br> <a href="http://www.benorenstein.com/images/rr-logo.png">Refactoring Rails course logo</a><br> <a href="https://gumroad.com/">Gumroad</a><br> <a href="https://rockymtnruby.com/">Rocky Mountain Ruby</a><br> <a href="http://graphql.org/">GraphQL</a><br> <a href="https://www.narro.co/">Narro.co</a><br> <a href="https://www.drip.co">Drip</a><br> <a href="http://refactoringrails.io">RefactoringRails.io</a></p>
