Rocky Mountain Ruby 2017
2017-09-29
Denver, United States
[Rocky Mountain Ruby 2011, Rocky Mountain Ruby 2012, Rocky Mountain Ruby 2013, Rocky Mountain Ruby 2014, Rocky Mountain Ruby 2015, Rocky Mountain Ruby 2016, Rocky Mountain Ruby 2017, Rocky Mountain Ruby 2023, Rocky Mountain Ruby 2024, Rocky Mountain Ruby 2025]
who it's for
ruby developers, engineering managers, tech community organizers, devops engineers, frontend developers, diversity and inclusion advocates, startup founders
topics
Conway's Law and architecture; helm chart packaging and deploys; minikube nginx local testing; Elm Maybe type handling; property based testing; RuboCop and ESLint diagnostics; continuous feedback and CI practices; hiring rubrics and psychological safety; de Bruijn graphs and PageRank; one week sprints and Kanban flow
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Livable Code | Sarah Mei | 36m |
Argues codebases are living interiors, not finished buildings: Conway's Law maps team communication to architecture and Brooks’ no silver bullet limits grand… | ||
| Building Helm Charts From the Ground Up... | Amy Chen | 29m |
Shows how to turn a Docker container into Kubernetes manifests and package them as a Helm chart, claiming Helm is the package manager that versions groups of… | ||
| Community Spotlight: Carrie Simon | Carrie Simon | 15m |
Defy Ventures trains incarcerated people in entrepreneurship and character development, claims 170 businesses launched and reports <5% recidivism versus ~70%… | ||
| Trust Me | Adam Cuppy | 35m |
Consultancy work claims trust is just operationalized certainty: the explicit claim is that short feedback loops and processes create predictable outcomes… | ||
| Community Spotlight: Elaine Marino | Elaine Marino | 15m |
Career change into Ruby and running a tech-events business leads to launching Equili and running Go Code Colorado, a state data hackathon that runs in five… | ||
| Comparative Error Handling... | Brittany Storoz | 32m |
Compares concrete failures and fixes across ecosystems: JavaScript shows unexpected token < in JSON from fetch responses and silent module-load failures caused… | ||
| Trust, But Verify (Programmatically) | Ben Orenstein | 33m |
Claims that Elm’s type system cuts runtime errors with concrete numbers and examples: a company running ~100k lines of Elm reports zero runtime exceptions over… | ||
| The (Non-Perfect) Mathematics of Trust | Vaidehi Joshi | 33m |
Königsberg’s seven bridges become a clear claim: no path crosses each bridge once, proven by reducing landmasses to nodes and counting degrees. The same… | ||
| A Discussion on Responsible Hiring & Team Building | April Wensel | 35m |
Argues that hiring and team problems are mainly human not technical, recommends concrete moves: use a rubric for interviews, run before/after surveys to… | ||
| Leadership Lessons from the Agile Manifesto | Anjuan Simmons | 34m |
Argues that trust is the actionable outcome of Agile values and gives concrete practices that work: use preserve dignity at all costs as a rule for team… | ||
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