MountainWest RubyConf 2009
2009-03-13..2009-03-14
Salt Lake City, United States
[MountainWest RubyConf 2007, MountainWest RubyConf 2008, MountainWest RubyConf 2009, MountainWest RubyConf 2010, MountainWest RubyConf 2011, MountainWest RubyConf 2012, MountainWest RubyConf 2013, MountainWest RubyConf 2014, MountainWest RubyConf 2015, MountainWest RubyConf 2016]
who it's for
ruby developers, rails developers, devops engineers, site reliability engineers, engineering managers, database engineers, gem/library authors
topics
rack middleware composition; Sinatra as middleware; action_orm ORM agnosticism; callbacks compiler optimization; Sequel prepared statements; Sequel streaming datasets; Ruby XMPP agent framework; Puppet AMI provisioning; EC2 user-data automation; continuous pairing and swarming; FasterCSV transcode-once parser
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Herding Tigers - Software Development and the Art of War | Danny Blitz | 30m |
Claims a small, cross‑functional “tiger team” (ideal size four devs + QA, product, occasional DBA/ops) yields huge gains: finished a 5‑week project in 7 days… | ||
| LittleBIGRuby | James Edward Gray II | 25m |
Shows a published Towers of Hanoi level built in LittleBigPlanet that actually works and explains the redesign choices to avoid objects snagging on doors… | ||
| In a World of Middleware, Who Needs Monolithic Applications | Jon Crosby | 28m |
Claim: replacing monolithic Rails code with Rack middleware yields composable services. Concrete examples: Rack apps implement call and return [status… | ||
| The Great Rails Refactor | Yehuda Katz | 38m |
Explains the Rails/Merb merge roadmap and concrete engineering work: Rails 3 adopts action_orm proxies for true ORM agnosticism (two integration options for… | ||
| Sequel | Jeremy Evans | 28m |
Sequel is a Ruby database toolkit that now splits into core and model, supports 13 adapters, and ships prepared statements since 2.3 and a streaming dataset… | ||
| Vertebra | Kirk Haines | 31m |
Vertebra is a Ruby agent framework that runs services over XMPP using ejabberd for the server layer and a C-backed client (initially Loudmouth, forked into… | ||
| Practical Puppet: Systems Building Systems | Andrew Clay Shafer | 28m |
Launches an EC2 AMI using user-data that runs Puppet to install Ruby, gems, MySQL, Apache + Passenger and a Rails app; the AMI build runs about 15 minutes… | ||
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