Marko Anastasov

Hi! I'm a cofounder of Rendered Text, a software company. We’re making Semaphore, a web-based continuous integration service for developers.

Writing

Here are some of my recent articles:

• How BDD and Continuous Delivery Help Developers Maintain Flow
• Elements of a Continuous Deployment Workflow
• Applying BDD to Ruby on Rails web applications
• Behavior-Driven Development (Japanese translation)
• Getting Started With RSpec
• RSpec Subject, Helpers, Hooks and Exception Handling
• Mocking With RSpec: Doubles and Expectations
• Rails Testing Antipatterns: Models
• TDD Antipatterns: The Free Ride
• Become an Exceptional Programmer By Learning To Ship

Talks

• Scaling a Rails Monolith with Event-Driven Microservices, WindyCityRails 2016, Chicago
• How to scale up, one microservice at a time, Abstractions 2016, Pittsburgh
• Improving your Rails application design with better TDD, RubyConf Brasil 2014, São Paulo
• Stack a platform with Linux containers, RuPy 2013, Budapest

Current reading

• Zero K by Don DeLillo

Current music

• Too Many Voices by Andy Stott
• Wonderland by Demdlike Stare
• American Idiot by Green Day
• The First Siren by Ancient Methods