Confreaks Courses

Deep End Diving: Getting Up to Speed on New Codebases

Discover strategies for quickly mastering new codebases, tools, and tech stacks, enabling faster contributions and smoother onboarding for developers at all levels.

• YouTube
• 34 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Rails Performance Monitoring 101: A Primer for Junior Developers - Lecture 1

Aprenda a diagnosticar e resolver problemas de desempenho em aplicações Rails usando uma abordagem top-down para triagem e escalabilidade.

• YouTube
• 45 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Rails as a Piece of Birthday Cake - Layering Approach for Maintainable Applications

Explore layering techniques in Rails to maintain healthy, scalable applications. Learn to extract and add new layers for improved maintainability as your project grows.

• YouTube
• 46 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Making GitHub's Rails Monolith Accessible by Default

Discover strategies for making legacy Rails applications accessible using automated scanning, preview-driven development, and an accessibility-first form builder.

• YouTube
• 42 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

An Imposter's Guide to Growth in Engineering

Overcome imposter syndrome and leverage it for growth in engineering with practical strategies for mid to upper level professionals.

• YouTube
• 39 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

How to Upstream Your Code to Rails

Learn the process of contributing to Rails, from identifying good contributions to navigating the review process, with insights from a real-world feature upstreaming experience.

• YouTube
• 26 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Bridging the Gap: Creating Trust Between Non-Technical Stakeholders and Engineering Teams

Discover strategies to build trust between non-technical stakeholders and engineering teams using data-driven communication and analysis techniques.

• YouTube
• 40 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Forging Your Path to Senior Developer

Discover strategies to advance from mid-level to senior developer, gaining insights on skill development and career progression in software engineering.

• YouTube
• 30 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Taylor's Guide to Big Rewrites - Lessons from a Successful Application Migration

Learn strategies for successful large-scale application rewrites, drawing insights from Taylorism and a real-world case study of migrating 2,500 customers' data over 18 months.

• YouTube
• 33 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Breaking the Grind: Crafting Your Ideal Software Engineering Career

Explore software engineering career paths through RPG-style skill trees. Unlock new abilities, level up existing ones, and discover diverse routes to advance your professional journey.

• YouTube
• 42 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Who Wants to Be a Ruby Engineer? - Exploring Unusual Ruby Code

Test your Ruby knowledge with quirky code snippets, exploring the language's strangest corners. Challenge yourself to become a "Strange" Ruby Engineer and win prizes!

• YouTube
• 43 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

The Math Every Programmer Needs - Practical Applications of Discrete Math in Ruby

Discover practical discrete math concepts to enhance your programming skills, from Boolean algebra to graph theory, without complex equations.

• YouTube
• 38 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Scaling Teams with Federated Super Apps

Explore strategies for scaling teams and building federated super apps in React Native, overcoming challenges in large-scale product development.

• YouTube
• 27 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Not Your Grandparents' Expo - Modern Adaptations and Customizations

Discover modern Expo's adaptability, faster development, and simplified configuration for customizing native projects and complex build setups.

• YouTube
• 25 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Signed, Sealed, Deployed: Shipping React Native Apps

Learn to build and ship React Native apps confidently with a crash course on deployment processes and essential ecosystem tools.

• YouTube
• 30 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video