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Three Mini-talks

Talkat GoGaRuCo 2012 · 2012-09-14..09-15· [ruby, concurrency]
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Three mini-lectures that give concrete takeaways: Celluloid is presented as threads on Rails, showing how to add it, use dot async, futures and pools (default pool size = CPU count), and notes it runs in production (Sidekiq) but the GIL limits CPU-bound parallelism unless using JRuby/Rubinius. A set of personal stories argues that naiveté and small risks can produce big outcomes (Sass success, Caltech path). The Ruby origin is reframed as Ruby as a DSL in C, evolved incrementally from C extensions.

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  1. 0:00Intro
  2. 0:50Celluloid
  3. 9:20Chris Epstein
  4. 19:24Sarah May
  5. 20:10Ruby Creation Myth
  6. 25:10The Birth of Ruby
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