RubyConf Portugal 2016
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Best Of | 03m | |
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| Opening | 02m | |
A chaotic rehearsal turns into a small live demo where a web page and its tests repeatedly fail then pass: an attempt to run the test on your iPhone trips over… | ||
| Methods of Memory Management in MRI | Aaron Patterson | 48m |
MRI uses a mark-and-sweep collector that is generational and incremental, with write barriers and a remembered set to avoid missing newly-referenced objects… | ||
| Control Theory | Hiro Asari | 34m |
Travis CI hits a hard cap of ~500 concurrent jobs so queued jobs spike into a red backlog; AWS Auto Scaling only offers metric, schedule or fixed-step policies… | ||
| Using GraphQL and Relay for hybrid RoR apps | Caio Sacramento | 35m |
Refactors a monolithic Drupal site into a Rails backend plus React/Relay frontends, replacing many custom REST endpoints with a single GraphQL endpoint and… | ||
| Ask vs. Guess Culture Communication | Katherine Wu | 32m |
Compares ask culture (explicit requests, efficiency, Intel example) with guest culture (indirect offers, “California yes”, husband-cooking anecdote), explains… | ||
| Crescent Wrenches and Debuggers | Kerri Miller | 46m |
Argues for applying the scientific method to debugging, using small diagnostics first — the scooter engine checklist (fuel, air, spark, containment) and the… | ||
| Software Design in the 21st Century | Martin Fowler | 01h 01m |
Argues that disciplined refactoring (the red-green-refactor cycle, frequent local commits on green) yields an economic speedup not just cleaner code, and shows… | ||
| Open Source: Power and the Passion | Pat Allan | 31m |
Presentation argues open source is powerful but unsustainable without changed funding and culture, cites rubygems infrastructure costing $32,000/month… | ||
| They Hear Me Typin’, They Hatin’ | Piotr Szotkowski | 43m |
Argues that switching from laptop rubber domes to mechanical keyboards reduces fatigue and improves long-typing comfort, demonstrates actual hardware: Cherry… | ||
| Rails Girls Summer of Code: Falling into Rabbit Holes | Marie Kochsiek, Thea Kupler, Nada Salama, Mayer Saleh | 19m |
Team builds a Ruby on Rails web app that integrates LEAP for encrypted email via LEAP, implements a Twitter feed using the Twitter rubygem and OptionParser to… | ||
| Elixir & Phoenix – fast, concurrent and explicit | Tobias Pfeiffer | 41m |
Elixir runs on the Erlang VM and Phoenix demonstrates extreme concurrency: benchmarks show 2 million WebSocket connections on one server and the BEAM supports… | ||
| Zen and the Art of Package Management | Yehuda Katz | 57m |
Built three package managers — Bundler, Cargo, Yarn — and compares concrete behaviors: Cargo enforces semver (it refuses to publish "" ranges), NPM install is… | ||
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