Molly Struve (she/her)

I just started watching this last night!!!! LOL 😂

Jul 14 '21

GREAT EPISODE!

Jul 10 '21

Hi all, the Forem team is aware of this issue and actively wo...

Jun 14 '21

So pumped to finally have a long-overdue QA focused engineer ...

Mar 12 '21

I'm not crying, you are crying! 😭 Beyond excited to have you...

Mar 4 '21

You are an inspirational Badass! ❤️️

Mar 3 '21

The black hat was the gateway drug, then white and pink quick...

Nov 23 '20

Baseball hats!!! As is apparent from my profile picture 😎 I ...

Nov 23 '20

All the feels in this post!!!! ❤️️ 🤗

Nov 2 '20

One of my favorite!!!!

Sep 28 '20

WHOA, that would make me furious!

Sep 24 '20

No thank you. Good bye.

Sep 23 '20

Even though I am one of the ones covering this week for the m...

Sep 23 '20

Sounds like Steve might be a Nigerian Prince 😂

Sep 19 '20

Mmmmm good ole Groupon

Sep 19 '20

Oooof that is horrible!

Sep 19 '20

The best line I have ever seen was "Groupon, more like move o...

Sep 18 '20

My advice would be, if possible, to talk to a coworker you tr...

Sep 9 '20

My husband works in information security for a trading firm w...

Aug 8 '20

OMG that first GIF 😂😂

Aug 8 '20

About 25%, we have a really young team though which I think s...

Aug 3 '20

This talk is 🔥🔥🔥! When we talk about accessibility, I feel l...

Jul 24 '20

Awesome talk @nickpalenchar ! What are some of the benefits o...

Jul 23 '20

Hands down the best place to be in the summer.

Jul 23 '20

I visited Berlin for the first time last fall for a conferenc...

Jul 23 '20

My first attempt to upload a phone photo came out sideways li...

Jul 23 '20

portable WiFi FTW!!!!

Jul 23 '20

Salary negotiating is important when getting a job AND when b...

Jul 23 '20

Hanging out at CodeLand from my backyard outside of Chicago, ...

Jul 23 '20

When I understand what is going on with my creations! Nothi...

Jul 6 '20

I had no idea that was a thing! So neat!

Jun 29 '20

LOL Brilliant!

Jun 27 '20

Googled "rails form_with dont use javascript" landed here, co...

Jun 26 '20

In case you didn't believe me that I do this all the time, le...

Jun 26 '20

Brutal!!! You can barely see that second "i", that's the word...

Jun 26 '20

Nice stickers!!!

Jun 18 '20

but watch out for curbs when you do

Jun 18 '20

Yep! That is exactly how it works, same as migrations. Here y...

Jun 17 '20

The script in this post is written in Ruby. I highly recommen...

Jun 17 '20

One reason I am wary about doing data migrations in schema mi...

Jun 17 '20

That is definitely another great way to try it out first befo...

Jun 17 '20

Oh man, YES! screen or tmux sessions are a must as well for l...

Jun 17 '20

Nope, I am talking about Ruby. In this sense, I am using "scr...

Jun 16 '20

Thanks for the insight! At first glance, the BuildKite docs...

Jun 2 '20

How has your experience been with BuildKite? Do you like it?

Jun 2 '20

Any advice or gotchas to look out for when making the switch....

Jun 2 '20

Great post Ben! Really liked it

May 30 '20

I feel like I hit the Jackpot being the Lead SRE for DEV at a...

May 28 '20

DONE

May 24 '20

I have a couple of posts on scaling too that you might find u...

May 22 '20

Right now we are using Elastic's hosted service. At my prior ...

May 18 '20

It depends on how you use it but we dont do any maintenance o...

May 18 '20

Web Monetized browsing sounds interesting. I'd love to try it...

May 15 '20

That is a really great idea!

May 13 '20

HA, I love that approach!

May 13 '20

Ahhhh! Good call, copying that link now. Thank you!

May 12 '20

100% I don't connect with any recruiter I don't know.

May 12 '20

OMG LOVE!

May 12 '20

I dont know how recruiters send their messages I just know mo...

May 12 '20

Those replies for Linkedin messages are the best thing that e...

May 12 '20

I have definitely found that for most responding keeps them f...

May 12 '20

I used to go the route of responding with "I am not intereste...

May 12 '20

From my point of view, the recruiter emails are just as stron...

May 4 '20

We definitely considered multiple technologies but in the end...

Apr 30 '20

Elasticsearch is a tried and true technology that has been ar...

Apr 30 '20

😍

Apr 26 '20

I am a huge proponent of always making sure you are making wh...

Apr 23 '20

In 2012 I spent 3 months teaching myself web development usin...

Apr 21 '20

Dog walking time! 🐶

Apr 21 '20

Awe, thanks Jacob! Just trying to keep it real ✌️

Apr 17 '20

We recently implemented debounce in DEV and it has been gre...

Apr 6 '20

That looks like it requires making that secondary user, ri...

Mar 23 '20

Not sure, worth looking into

Mar 23 '20

When a company develops a widely adopted and used open-sour...

Mar 20 '20

You bet it is! :D

Mar 7 '20

YAY!!!! A healthy body means a healthy mind and that leads ...

Mar 7 '20

Bahahaha, no it was definitely a foam target 😂

Mar 7 '20

When you are feeling a little lazy let the pictures do the ...

Mar 7 '20

Jurassic Park taught me well, can never be too prepared

Mar 6 '20

Price More control over creating indexes and queries Elast...

Mar 5 '20

The benefit of using the plain ruby wrapper is that you hav...

Mar 4 '20

That is SO COOL!!!!

Mar 4 '20

If you want other data associated with tags then yes. Or yo...

Mar 3 '20

We use Preboot and the release phase with DEV and they are ...

Mar 2 '20

Pro: You get a lot of ownership over what you are working o...

Feb 25 '20

This is awesome! Thanks!

Feb 20 '20

You have a fur baby, that counts for like half credit 😉

Feb 17 '20

LOVE that advice about printing your resume out once. Good ...

Jan 23 '20

Personally, I think you should filter out "non-relevant" jo...

Jan 23 '20

I don't have any advice on that front because as I said in ...

Jan 23 '20

I would 100% agree! Personally, when I get a multi-page resum...

Jan 23 '20

First off, as a less experienced dev, it is your job to quest...

Jan 22 '20

So that's where all those PRs came from today 😉

Jan 20 '20

All CSS scares me! 😂

Jan 15 '20

lol I also had a small heart attack when I saw it for the f...

Jan 10 '20

Correct, we do not have a staging environment. In the past,...

Jan 10 '20

The advantage to having the keys change is that you never ...

Jan 10 '20

Thanks! Definitely worth looking into!

Jan 9 '20

WOOT! Glad I was able to explain it better! To be clear, w...

Jan 6 '20

What are the advantages of having mutable keys when compar...

Jan 5 '20

A little while ago I started a Level Up Your Ruby Skillz se...

Jan 5 '20

I learned about caching by reading about it then using it o...

Jan 5 '20

I have written multiple posts on caching but none that are ...

Jan 5 '20

Have you tested Gunjs yet? We did not test that and will...

Jan 5 '20

Based on what I saw being cached in the app 75 GB seemed ab...

Jan 4 '20

Implementing Redis with DelayedJob, impressive! Thanks for ...

Dec 31 '19

OMG yes please share!!! So glad that your crisis also went ...

Dec 20 '19

Aren't you glad I got that out of my system before coming t...

Dec 19 '19

Glad you enjoyed it! It definitely was quite the roller coa...

Dec 19 '19

Going from version 2 to version 5 for Elasticsearch is actu...

Dec 19 '19

I LOVE THAT!!!!

Dec 18 '19

OMG, I need these scripts!!!

Dec 4 '19

Best prank pulled on me: The sales team at my first startup...

Dec 4 '19

This was a small learning but this past week I learned abou...

Nov 23 '19

Definitely manual. We had a pretty robust alerting and moni...

Nov 23 '19

No limitations on features and the number of subscribers/t...

Nov 22 '19

Couple that I have looked into and would LOVE more details ...

Nov 22 '19

I like it, sounds like a solid strategy 😃 Thanks for taking...

Nov 15 '19

Every time I tweet I think, aw snap, that would have been ...

Nov 15 '19

The migration has only just begun 😊

Nov 14 '19

I LOVE LOVE LOVE my 15in Pro, but oh boy, I think 16in woul...

Nov 13 '19

I am so excited that we have been given the opportunity to ...

Nov 7 '19

😂❤️️

Oct 25 '19

LOVE that post!!!!

Oct 25 '19

One day I would think would be too short and require too mu...

Oct 24 '19

Thank you!!! The SRE Google book is great and honestly the...

Oct 24 '19

Elasticsearch has great getting started docs. I have been m...

Oct 22 '19

Not going to lie they are the BEST dogs and super smart!

Oct 22 '19

That's the goal!!!

Oct 22 '19

Elasticsearch is one of those tools that is very easy to ge...

Oct 22 '19

We had 21 nodes before we made these optimizations, amongst...

Oct 18 '19

Keep it in perspective. Do things that you enjoy, life is t...

Oct 17 '19

Definitely, I would love for it to be shared to reach more ...

Oct 17 '19

I am far from an expert since I have only been exploring th...

Oct 17 '19

Glad you enjoyed the article! Not sure I understand the qu...

Oct 16 '19

Determine how you want to be active, what kinds of things y...

Oct 16 '19

Honestly being the interviewer can be just as hard as being...

Oct 6 '19

🔥🔥🔥 we have that at home and nothing beats wiring into it 😃

Oct 5 '19

Oof! This is why I wanted to do this bc I think more people...

Oct 5 '19

From my hotel room in Dublin a couple of days ago!

Oct 5 '19

README updates are way more valuable than I think people gi...

Oct 2 '19

Ever since I setup a ScreenShots folder in my home directoy...

Oct 1 '19

We had issues with dirty exits and had a worker called the ...

Oct 1 '19

I have never used Delayed Job but I did recently move all of ...

Sep 24 '19

Here's a couple from the pun king himself, Aaron Patterson. ...

Sep 22 '19

Knowledge of how the magic work comes with time and experie...

Sep 22 '19

Office Space!

Sep 21 '19

Nice post! Up until last year I always used "Hey, guys!", "W...

Sep 21 '19

whoa! that is quite a view!

Sep 18 '19

Thank you! I know many others have done posts on rebasing v...

Sep 18 '19

Good call on squash or not to squash argument! That always ...

Sep 18 '19

LastPass! Then my husband and I have our Master Passwords ...

Sep 15 '19

I learned how to set up Maintenance Mode in Datadog. It is ...

Sep 15 '19

Syntax opinions. Seriously, if the code works and you can...

Sep 15 '19

That's on me I should be more clear, I'm talking about Recr...

Sep 13 '19

I would share it with recruiters because they are supposed ...

Sep 13 '19

✋That's me! I commit to master, I force push to master, I d...

Sep 10 '19

So Impressive!!! Sometimes writing a blog is the best way t...

Sep 3 '19

Refactor our Elasticsearch searching code and make the spec...

Aug 28 '19

One of my favorites is an oldie but goodie, the table_print...

Aug 26 '19

Stop it 😍

Aug 24 '19

This looks like a scene from a movie!!! 😲

Aug 23 '19

👋 Hi fellow IL'er!!!!

Aug 23 '19

Boat = Office?! 🤯

Aug 23 '19

Great pictures! I am going to Berlin for the first time eve...

Aug 23 '19

Are those the Blue Angels?!?!

Aug 23 '19

Super jealous after seeing some of the pictures on Twitter!...

Aug 23 '19

SO much DEV going on in that picture 😍

Aug 23 '19

Nice sticker collection!!!

Aug 22 '19

HOLY WOW!!!! 😍

Aug 22 '19

Noooooo 😥

Aug 22 '19

SO NEAT!!! Can you take a picture so we can see what it's l...

Aug 22 '19

SO NEAT!!! Can you take a picture so we can see what it's l...

Aug 22 '19

I'm going to Colombia next month! Can you take a picture so...

Aug 22 '19

AWESOME! Can you take a picture?! Would love to see Brazil!

Aug 22 '19

A picture out the window would be cool! Doesn't need to be ...

Aug 22 '19

HI!!!!!! 🤘

Aug 22 '19

That's so cool!!!! Can you take a picture? I want to see Za...

Aug 22 '19

Last week I was DEV'ing from the Kentucky Horse Park!!!

Aug 22 '19

11 teams?! Wow sounds like a big organization. We have 4 de...

Aug 17 '19

Oh thats a good one!

Aug 17 '19

We never ran into any issues with hashtags or multi deletes...

Aug 16 '19

Wow I cant imagine having to write tests for hardware, that...

Aug 16 '19

Thanks for sharing! This is all fabulous insight!!!

Aug 16 '19

That sounds incredibly frustrating and disheartening 😔

Aug 16 '19

The client balance is always hard, you want to give all of ...

Aug 15 '19

I recently became a technical lead and now I have a team of...

Aug 15 '19

Thank you for sharing your journey, Mario! Sounds like it h...

Aug 15 '19

WOW! Thanks for sharing your story and your strategies!!!

Aug 14 '19

I made a couple of assumptions to generate a way to split t...

Aug 14 '19

I think the best thing you can do is not be afraid of when/...

Aug 12 '19

My coworkers Jdoss and Andy who are always there for me whe...

Aug 4 '19

Oh man, I never thought about having to do this! Glad I mad...

Aug 2 '19

WOW! Great post and insights! Thanks for collecting those!

Aug 1 '19

Thanks for the thoughtful feedback! We are hoping to get a...

Jul 31 '19

Right?! Honeybadger has filters and ways to ignore tags and...

Jul 31 '19

Our vagrant setups, for the most part, cover all of the tes...

Jul 31 '19

😬Never fun, but sometimes it's necessary!

Jul 31 '19

Genius!!!!

Jul 30 '19

I feel this!!! Most of the devs are pretty good about it b...

Jul 30 '19

I work for a cybersecurity company, we help Fortune 500 com...

Jul 30 '19

Two things that drive me absolutely nuts. Not encrypting ...

Jul 30 '19

Google Hangouts for those who are remote and just straight ...

Jul 30 '19

Hey @ben , Had an idea. What do you think about making th...

Jul 29 '19

LOVE THIS!!!! 😍

Jul 27 '19

Arthur Kay ...

Jul 27 '19

That sounds pretty cool! And its kinda nice if you can just...

Jul 26 '19

So jealous! I really wanted to go but the scheduling didnt ...

Jul 26 '19

Wow, I have never heard of that conference but it looks inc...

Jul 26 '19

My favorite conference so far has been RubyHACK. I loved ...

Jul 26 '19

Being on call is part of our job so we do not make extra mo...

Jul 22 '19

Wedding Crashers!

Jul 19 '19

As my mom likes to say, its all about the journey and not t...

Jul 18 '19

Congrats on your baby!!! That is definitely a good reason t...

Jul 18 '19

Thank you for the kind words! I too like to keep my posts ...

Jul 18 '19

Agree! We do an SRE rotation with our devs where one of the...

Jul 12 '19

Worked worked worked 😊

Jul 11 '19

YAY!!! I can't tell you how happy that makes me!!!! ❤️️

Jul 11 '19

hehe no worries! Been there, done that! Especially during t...

Jul 11 '19

Yep! As I stated that is also an option 😊 Lastly, when wo...

Jul 11 '19

Copy/Paste frontend snippets FTW!!! I often refer to fronten...

Jul 9 '19

YES! I have never been a very visual person. Some people can ...

Jul 9 '19

Wrote a whole blog post on it! It includes the sit/stand de...

Jul 8 '19

I don't speak for other companies but I do know for us at K...

Jul 4 '19

Thanks! Def will give your post a read over break! Podcas...

Jul 3 '19

That hair!!!! You bet, the horseless horse shows are alway...

Jul 3 '19

OMG yes!!!! Damn you were good at carrying poles. I remembe...

Jul 3 '19

Hay Baler Horse Groom Horse Instructor College Course TA ...

Jul 2 '19

I feel this so much! I was that person with all the domain ...

Jul 2 '19

LOVE this!!! The one point that I think some companies ri...

Jun 26 '19

Honesty is also very important to me 100% AGREE! I have ...

Jun 25 '19

What I look for in Junior Engineers Enthusiasm: They are ex...

Jun 25 '19

LOVE the idea of top tag posts! As someone who does backend, ...

Jun 24 '19

Molly Struve 🦄 ...

Jun 23 '19

I would agree with all of this! It's really up to the indiv...

Jun 20 '19

Good question, I have never read or heard anything about re...

Jun 20 '19

Gotta make do with what you got 😀

Jun 20 '19

It is a Rails specific thing. You can read more about it in...

Jun 19 '19

😂WHAT?!

Jun 19 '19

It was a game changer for me!

Jun 19 '19

Oh, thats great to know! Thanks for sharing that insight!

Jun 19 '19

Definitely would be a good idea to talk to a doctor before ...

Jun 19 '19

LOVE IT! I have a gym ball in my office at home and some da...

Jun 19 '19

So happy to hear someone else who has had my experience! I ...

Jun 19 '19

For our use case, a lot of times support will get an inquir...

Jun 18 '19

Yep! You can open a write console anytime you want by issui...

Jun 18 '19

Fail Forward Our VP of Engineering ingrained in our team...

Jun 18 '19

LOL great movie!!! This is how it went for half the projec...

Jun 12 '19