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Lucas Dohmen

Principal Consultant at SWAGLab

Main Skills

Web development, software architecture, Ruby

About

Lucas is an accomplished architect, team lead, software developer, and trainer with nearly 20 years of experience. Most recently, he was team lead of the web team at komoot, one of the leading outdoor platforms with 45 million active users worldwide. He is co-author of the book series “The Rails Way”, an experienced conference speaker, and podcaster. He is also the founder and maintainer of several open-source projects. He is passionate about helping people and organizations reach their full potential.

Publications by

Lucas Dohmen

Podcast: Cookies

"I accept cookies." Each of us accepts them several times a day. But what exactly happens when we do? Stefan Bodewig, Lucas Dohmen and Till Schulte-Coerne discuss this in this episode.

Stefan Bodewig
Till Schulte-Coerne
Lucas Dohmen

The Rails 8 Way

The Rails™ 8 Way is the comprehensive, authoritative reference guide for professionals delivering production-quality code using modern Ruby on Rails. It illuminates the entire Rails 7 API, its most powerful idioms, design approaches, and libraries.

Lucas Dohmen

Podcast: The technological backbone of the Web

“What happens when you press Enter in your browser?”Lucas and Robert discuss nothing less than the backbone of the World Wide Web. Step by step, the two work their way through the three pillars of the Web—HTML, HTTP, and URLs—before getting to the heart of the matter: the stateless request-response cycle with headers.

Lucas Dohmen

DevOps and Unicorns

If you want to deliver software quickly and agilely, there's no getting around DevOps. In this episode, Lucas and Anja talk about what DevOps is – and what it isn't.

Anja Kammer

Databases: Data models, scaling, cloud

Developers today have a wide range of options when it comes to choosing a database for their application. In this book, we discuss data models, scaling, and operation, with the aim of helping you make the right choice.

Lucas Dohmen

Cheat Sheet: Web Performance

All important information on the topic of web performance is summarized in this cheat sheet.

Lucas Dohmen