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LA RubyConf 2010

date:2010-02-19..2010-02-20
location:Burbank, United States
series:LA RubyConf · 5 editions
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New Relic: Web App Performance MonitoringPaul MacCready12m
New Relic: Web App Performance Monitoring / Paul MacCready - Gossamer Condor by: Bjorn Freeman-Benson
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Everything you ever wanted to know about threads...Joe Damato, Aman Gupta37m
Ruby 1.8’s green threads use setitimer and signal handlers so a single spawned thread leaves a periodic setitimer/sigvtalrm interrupt running forever; tracing…
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Indoctrinating the Next Generation: Teaching Ruby to KidsSarah Mei39m
Argues that teaching kids Ruby works best with short, concrete goals, 15-minute iterations and visual immediate feedback; recommends installing lightweight…
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Alternative Data Structures in RubyTyler McMullen20m
Shows concrete tradeoffs: a Bloom filter stores 100 million strings (≈100 chars) in about 280 MB at a 0.00001% false-positive rate versus ~10 GB for a hash…
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Oh S***: How to bring a big Rails website down (and how not to)Tim Morgan34m
Scribd-scale numbers (≈40M monthly users, 50k uploads/day, tens of millions of rows) expose concrete Rails+MySQL failures: a quick change to…
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