Big Ruby 2013
who it's for
Rails developers, devops engineers, site reliability engineers, platform engineers, operations engineers, data engineers, engineering managers
topics
EventMachine and Celluloid IO; Capistrano orchestration workflows; Puppet with Hiera; vagrant multi-node prototyping; Chef resource and file edits; Rails horizontal scaling patterns; memcache-backed model caching; Resque background processing; avro raw data capture; webhook plus polling ingestion
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Keynote | Jim Weirich | 49m |
A real project builds a TCP-based drone manager that pumps messages between devices and a monitor, reduces Java’s ~4,000 lines to ~300–400 (a 10x savings in… | ||
| DevOps for the Rubyist Soul | John Downey | 37m |
Explains how Braintree actually runs a Ruby-centered DevOps stack: orchestration with Capistrano, configuration with Puppet + Hiera, a git-branch→environment… | ||
| How to Overcome the Apathy of Big Data | Matt Kirk | 31m |
Claim: start with a goal and cut noise to the handful of variables that actually move outcomes. Demonstrations include a tweet classifier built in Ruby using… | ||
| Services and Rails: The Shit They Don't Tell You | Brian Morton | 28m |
A clear playbook emerges: a 300+ model, 200 controller Rails monolith backed by 20+ JVM services and some endpoints doing over a billion requests a day turns… | ||
| Move fast and make things | Adam Keys | 45m |
Argues for resisting heavyweight tools, managing dependencies, and using short analytics spike in a weekend experiments to shrink big problems into doable… | ||
| 5 Things You Didn't Know About Chef | Joshua Timberman | 42m |
Five concrete takeaways: use Chef::Util::FileEdit (or the community line cookbook) to change one line in /etc/hosts via search_file_replace_line rather than… | ||
| How Shopify Scales Rails | John Duff | 41m |
Shopify runs Rails at 50k requests per minute with ~45 ms storefront responses and handles spikes to ~200k rpm during flash sales, scaling from a single server… | ||
| Build a Bigger Brain: How Healthy Living Makes You Smarter | Joe Kutner | 39m |
Recommendations specify 10,000 steps daily with 20 minutes brisk walking, five minutes of movement each hour, and position changes every 20 minutes; Amish data… | ||
| Treading Water in a Stream of Data | Jeremy Hinegardner | 41m |
Argues for concrete ingestion patterns: prefer webhook plus polling fallback so missed deliveries are recoverable, avoid pure push for high‑volume feeds… | ||
| Fire It Up: How Empowered People Automated Provisioning In 6 Datacenters Across 4 Continents | Josh sheram | 35m |
Automates network-device provisioning across six datacenters on four continents, replacing copy‑paste configs with a Rails API service called firekick that… | ||
| Scaling With Friends | Geoffrey Dagley | 46m |
A single Rails backend supports six games and millions of daily players, with concrete ops: about 400+ app servers running ~35 Unicorns each, 125+ MySQL shards… | ||
| Lightning Talks | Chris Morris | 35m |
Rapid-fire specifics: a Rails hack gem eelinator CSV→XLS on Rails that registers an XLS mime type and overrides lookup and layout behavior so HTML tables… | ||
| Hypermedia - less hype, more media please | Wynn Netherland | 42m |
GitHub treats hypermedia as pragmatic experimentation: the API returns link relations (status URL on the status endpoint) and supports multiple media types… | ||
| The Most Important Optimization: Happiness | Ernie Miller | 48m |
Claim: happiness is the primary optimization and it breaks down to CAR: capacity activities relationships. Actionable specifics: boost capacity with exercise… | ||
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