Once Upon a Time, Ruby

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Describes concrete failures and fixes: MRI’s conservative GC can miss a heap object when C extensions leave only a raw pointer on the stack causing a string internal buffer freed segfault; mitigations include allocator perturbation and gc stress mode or using a kernel timer via the system_timer gem for reliable timeouts; JRuby has a nested-timeout bug that blocks its workers; GitHub-scale deployment exposes these problems and pushes toward alternative VMs like Rubinius and JRuby.

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1. 0:00Ruby horror stories
2. 1:40GitHub’s Ruby systems
3. 2:44Mark and sweep GC
4. 12:03Timeouts running out
5. 22:37Ruby’s future
6. 26:58Q&A Ruby implementations

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