XO Ruby Atlanta 2025
2025-09-13
Atlanta, United States
who it's for
Rails developers, Ruby developers, database administrators, platform engineers, frontend developers, engineering managers, security engineers, accessibility engineers
topics
Postgres shared_buffers tuning; effective_cache_size and random_page_cost; autovacuum and timeout settings; ProxySQL connection pooling; ReadySet CDC smart caching; React to Hotwire migration; Turbo Frames and Turbo Streams; Stimulus and turbo-mount integration; ViewComponent polymorphic slots; component previews and with_collection; static analysis comparisons (RuboCop/Brakeman/CodeQL); paid apprenticeship and junior hiring trials
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Scaling PostgreSQL Beyond Query Optimization | Alex Yarotsky | 25m |
Postgres performance improves when concrete settings change: set shared_buffers 25–40% and effective_cache_size 50–75%, lower random_page_cost toward ~1.5, and… | ||
| Play with your code | Rachael Wright Munn | 24m |
Programming games make three concrete changes: immediate hot reload and visible execution (Exopunks shows each register and file contents) instead of delayed… | ||
| Empty Pipeline, Empty Future | Thomas Cannon | 26m |
Conference evidence shows no junior listings on Ruby job boards and argues that the industry is starving entry-level talent. Concrete proposal: use $3,000 paid… | ||
| The Disability Dilemma | Katya Sarmiento | 25m |
Session runs interactive, embodied sensory exercises that simulate ARID, chronic fatigue, postpartum overwhelm and grief to show how daily symptoms block basic… | ||
| Overreacting—From React to Hotwire | Igor Aleksandrov | 28m |
A pragmatic hybrid migration keeps the existing React SPA as static assets while new features land in Rails with Hotwire (Turbo, Turbo Frames/Streams… | ||
| Refactoring Volatile Views into Cohesive Components | Jeremy Smith | 33m |
Views become volatile and are refactored into concrete components using the ViewComponent gem; a messy tab bar that changed 7 times is rebuilt as a bar… | ||
| From Expensive Queries to Smart Caching: A DBA’s Guide for Rails | Javier Zon | 24m |
Shows concrete fixes: use ProxySQL to front tens of thousands of Rails connections and limit back-end DB sockets, use ReadySet as a CDC-driven smart cache that… | ||
| SAST and Sensibility: A Rubyist’s Guide to Static... | Kylie Stradley | 32m |
Compares concrete detections: RuboCop flags eval and YAML.load but RuboCop misses SQLi in the demo; Brakeman finds SQL and some command injection within a file… | ||
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