Top Stories published by Expected Behavior Blog in 2018

How To Unit Test CoffeeScript 2 React Components in Rails

By Tony Dewan and Matt Gordon

For Instrumental, we like to write our React components in CoffeeScript. It’s not the most common choice, but we love the aesthetics of CoffeeScript and we love writing React…


Cost of GDPR Compliance for a Small Software Business

By Jonathon Fruchte

There are plenty of blog posts detailing GDPR compliance strategies. This is not one of them. Regardless of what you read, there are parts of GDPR that are simply not well defined (Art. 27…


Edging Into Serverless

By Tony Dewan and Matt Gordon

Tl;dr We dropped a tiny amount of AWS Lambda into our Rails app to get some much-needed job concurrency in a project with spiky demand and tight execution requirements.


Our Plan for Zero-Downtime Database Transitions with Rails: Part 1

By Nathan Acuff, Jason Gladish, and Joel Meador

Database migrations are causing scheduled downtime. You’re working on a Saturday morning. Customers are getting alerts about service…


Welcome!

By James Paden, but he merely copied from the website about page

This is the beginning of the Expected Behavior Blog. We hope to share some of our successes and failures, and what we’ve learned from those experiences. If you’re unfamiliar with us, we’re a bit different. Here’s what we…

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