Birmingham on Rails 2020
2020-01-31
Birmingham, United States
who it's for
Ruby on Rails developers, backend engineers, site reliability engineers, platform engineers, engineering managers, mobile backend engineers
topics
bundler per-application dependency resolution; Rails engines and gems decomposition; gRPC with HTTP/2 streaming; Protocol Buffers schema-driven clients; Active Storage file analyzers; Apple itms-services manifest generation; Postgres JSONB with GIN indexing; PG Bouncer connection pooling; pgbackrest and WAL streaming backups; SRE monitoring with APMs and event streams; error budgets and Apdex-driven alerting; Watson NLU sentiment with Nexmo Message API
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Morning Keynote | Stephan Hagemann | 41m |
Argues that splitting a Rails codebase into labeled gems and Rails engines gives provable boundaries, per-component tests and a build script that aggregates… | ||
| The Story of Rails! | Ratnadeep Deshmane | 26m |
Clear, concrete origin stories drive the session: bundler per‑application dependency resolution and how it fixes conflicting gem activations, strong parameters… | ||
| A Quick Guide to RPC Frameworks | Yulia Oletskaya | 38m |
Company migration from pub/sub to gRPC with HTTP/2 streaming connects an AWS Lambda/S3-trigger pipeline to over 50+ services and replaces flaky subscriptions… | ||
| Validating and Processing the Content of... | Claudio B | 33m |
Shows working code that uses Active Storage to analyze IPA files, extract app name and version with CFPropertyList, generate an Apple manifest XML, upload it… | ||
| Postgres at any Scale | Craig Kerstiens | 36m |
Concrete takeaways: Postgres handles everything from <10 GB to multi‑node sharded clusters, with a real case of running 1.5 million Postgres databases on a… | ||
| Site Reliability on Rails | Anthony Crumley | 35m |
Argues that the first fix is visibility: deploy APMs, record event streams and minute snapshots, and you can time-travel to incidents. Recommends concrete… | ||
| What's Love Got To Do With It?... | Ben Greenberg | 38m |
Claim: language shapes thought and automated sentiment needs concrete data checks. A Rails WhatsApp app fetches headlines from NewsAPI, sends them to IBM… | ||
| Closing Keynote: Lucky You | Sandi Mets | 01h 02m |
Claims that luck is hackable via four behaviors from Richard Wiseman, backed by datasets and local maps: BLS extraction of 2.3M programming jobs with a median… | ||
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