EuRuKo 2021
2021-05-28..2021-05-29
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who it's for
Ruby developers, Rails developers, tooling and language-server authors, IDE and editor extension authors, devops and release engineers, engineering managers, startup founders and product leads
topics
Steep static type checker LSP; VS Code Ruby extension; Enumerator IO gzip streaming; typewriter gem pipelines; ActiveRecord existence checks (any? vs count); Postgres statement timeouts and tuning; packager: deb and rpm builds; building web apps with Ruby Standard Library; manual HTTP parsing over TCP; YAML::Store persistence; Twilio and Wi-Fi smart light integration; ethics of product quality and escalation practices
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Lockdown: The Mother of Invention | Amy Wall | 40m |
A year of lockdown leads to concrete Ruby results: a proof‑of‑concept On-Air alert system uses a Wi‑Fi smart light with a REST API and a Twilio video app to… | ||
| Lightning talk: The 6 Characters That Could Bring Down Your App | Moncef Belyamani | 09m |
A Rails app suffers huge Postgres CPU spikes and statement timeouts because an ActiveRecord relation uses count (translating to a slow COUNT query) to check… | ||
| IDE development with Ruby | Soutaro Matsumoto | 39m |
Implemented a Ruby language server for the Steep static type checker that speaks LSP and powers a VS Code extension; single-file incremental checks finish… | ||
| Streaming data transformations with Ruby | Ville Lautanala | 05m |
Implements a streaming pipeline that fetches a webpage, pipes it through a gzip decoder implemented as an Enumerator IO wrapper, and counts characters without… | ||
| Delivering fast and slow - Ethics of quality | Lena Wiberg | 37m |
Argues that speed-for-speed’s-sake produces cascades of small bad decisions and gives concrete failures: Boeing 737 MAX >300 deaths, Mars Climate Orbiter… | ||
| Lightning talk: Shipping Ruby and Rails apps as native Linux packages | Cyril Rohr | 11m |
Tool called packager (GitHub) converts a Ruby/Rails repo using Heroku buildpacks into deb and rpm packages in under five minutes, including Ruby version, gems… | ||
| Building a Ruby web app using the Ruby Standard Library | Maple Ong | 36m |
Builds a working step‑tracker web app from raw Ruby: opens a TCP server on port 9999, parses HTTP requests by hand (start line, headers, Content‑Length)… | ||
| Why a Diverse Team is Crucial to Startup Success | Melissa Jurkoic | 46m |
Argues that team diversity measurably improves customer experience and business outcomes, starting with a concrete definition and a written plan. Recommends… | ||
| Q&A with | Linda Liukas | 12m |
Q&A focuses on concrete takeaways: a staged kitchen setting and remote production tricks that wouldn’t work on-site, a 60-second video series computer science… | ||
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