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Helping Engineers Understand Their Ruby on Rails Apps and Reduce Time To Resolution Of Incidents.

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About John Gallagher

I'm a Joyful Programming Coach who specialises in improving observability in Ruby on Rails apps.

I've spent 20 years honing my software engineering skills and I'm here to pass on my knowledge to the next generation.

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