rubyday 2023
2023-06-16
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rubyday ·
[RubyDay 2015, RubyDay 2016, rubyday 2019, rubyday 2020, rubyday 2021, rubyday 2023, rubyday 2024]
who it's for
ruby developers, engineering managers, backend engineers, tech leads, developer experience engineers, mentors and junior developers, site reliability engineers
topics
one-on-one meetings for managers; transformer model internals; JSON Schema to TypeScript generation; Action Cable event type unions; RuboCop AST traversal and custom cops; functional data transformation in Ruby; ruby language design and evolution; Fastly edge caching strategies; fragment and browser caching patterns; Counter Culture counter caching
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| One-on-One: the benefit you should look for | Giulia Mialich | 37m |
Claims a measurable payoff: one-on-ones take about 6–8 hours per week per manager but deliver a big return, lifting engagement from roughly 20% to about 60% (a… | ||
| How ChatGPT Works | Paolo "Nusco" Perrotta | 01h 01m |
Explains that ChatGPT is a multi‑billion‑parameter transformer that turns tokens into vectors, uses attention heads to weight context, and predicts the next… | ||
| End to end typing for web applications | Frederick Cheung | 39m |
Claim: keep one source of truth for data shapes by writing JSON Schema to TypeScript and generating types used by both Ruby produces and the frontend. Tools… | ||
| RuboCop Sent You a Friend Request | Alessandro Rizzo | 35m |
Demonstrates building a custom RuboCop linter by using Ruby AST pattern matchers and RuboCop’s depth‑first traversal to find nodes and flag unsafe uses of… | ||
| The Functional Alternative | Ju Liu | 45m |
Generate 100 random numbers into a file, write a Ruby script that prints index and that many hashes, and then try to group consecutive equal rows imperatively… | ||
| Ruby's Creed | Bozhidar Batsov | 36m |
Argues that Ruby’s creed — optimizing for programmer happiness — is real but vague, and evaluates concrete changes: Ruby 3 lands after ~5,000+ commits per… | ||
| Caching strategies on https://dev.to | Ridhwana Khan | 25m |
DEV runs a read‑heavy Ruby on Rails site with over 1 million users and credits caching for its snappy pages. It shows Edge caching with Fastly (warm vs cold… | ||
| Investing in the Future: Unlocking the Potential of Junior Developers | Hana Harencarova | 40m |
Practical checklist of what actually happens: teams label small tasks as good first issues, new hires pair with multiple people in pairing sessions and aim to… | ||
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