GoRuCo 2013
2013-06-08
New York, United States
GORUCO ·
[GORUCO 2008, GoRuCo 2009, GoRuCo 2012, GoRuCo 2013, GoRuCo 2014, GORUCO 2015, GORUCO 2016, GORUCO 2017, GORUCO 2018]
who it's for
Ruby developers, Rails developers, library and gem maintainers, platform engineers, site reliability engineers, engineering managers, iOS developers using RubyMotion
topics
F-pattern form layout; consistent grid spacing; krypt Ruby crypto framework; JRuby integration and ports; Bundler vs Rubygems.org scaling; Postgres versus Redis benchmarking; Nokogiri C extension and packaging; theme engine with Ruby Mustache; in-memory repository and event sourcing; Enumerator::Lazy and lazy enumerators; RubyMotion native iOS development; ZFS filesystem snapshots for branching
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Microtalk: Usability Primer in 10 Minutes Flat | Steve Berry | 10m |
Notes specific enough to pick or skip: the talk claims the F-pattern layout measurably increases scannability and reduces eye fixations for form-heavy apps… | ||
| Krypt. Semper Pi. | Martin Boßlet | 36m |
krypt is a Ruby crypto framework that provides a secure, high‑level API plus a low‑level provider interface, implements providers via uses FFI and Java… | ||
| Deathmatch Bundler vs Rubygems.org | Andre Arko | 37m |
The team reimplements the Bundler API, measures with Librato and Papertrail, and scales on Heroku; the result is an index and service that make rubygems.org… | ||
| Microtalk: Nokogiri - History and Future | Mike Dalessio | 11m |
Nokogiri claims nearly 10 million downloads and traces a concrete arc: a C extension first, a painful FFI phase (3,000 lines of Ruby vs ~4,000 lines of C, lots… | ||
| Microtalk:A House of Cards - The Perils of Maintaining a 7-Year-Old Codebase | Julie Gill | 09m |
RoR code from 2005–2006 grows into hundreds of models and near‑billions of rows of data, with fragile meta programming and proprietary street easy magic… | ||
| Microtalk: Building a Theme Engine w/ Ruby Mustache | Kevin Sherus | 11m |
VHX ships a theme engine that renders the same Mustache templates on both server and client so sites load pre-rendered HTML for SEO while the editor performs… | ||
| Putting off Persistence | Lauren Voswinkel | 40m |
Claim: postpone choosing a database until the domain is understood. Implements simple in-memory repository and an event list backed by arrays and small… | ||
| Microtalk: Working with Rubyists | Aaron Quaint | 10m |
Claims that management can stay technical and that still writes code while leading a team, with concrete proof of being top contributor to the main monorail… | ||
| Microtalk: Hacking the Academic Experience | Emily Stolfo | 11m |
Course shows a hacker-centric curriculum that uses Ruby on Rails with MongoDB, GitHub and Heroku, forces students to use Stack Overflow and Meetup, and… | ||
| Functional Programming and Ruby | Pat Shaughnessy | 43m |
Shows Haskell quicksort briefly then digs into concrete claims: Haskell supports infinite list laziness and elegant lazy memoized fib; Ruby 2.0 adds… | ||
| Microtalk: Motion in the Middle - RubyMotion as a Gateway to iOS development | Matt Salerno | 11m |
RubyMotion claims a middle path: write Ruby that compiles to native apps compiled and calls the Objective‑C runtime directly. The uploader reports a Flavorpill… | ||
| Microtalk: Take a picture, it'll last longer | JD Harrington | 11m |
Demonstrates branching live databases by swapping filesystem snapshots so developers get fast safe experiments without huge copies. Uses ZFS snapshots (also… | ||
| To Know A Garbage Collector | Mike Bernstein | 42m |
Obsession leads to concrete work: implemented new GC algorithms in MRI Ruby inside a "notoriously insane" C codebase, compares results against experiments with… | ||
| Asynchronous Service Oriented Design | John Pignata | 45m |
GroupMe extracts async pieces with concrete results: a Redis-backed transport service replaces resque workers to cut variance and raise throughput, with a… | ||
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