title	conference	date
Operating Rails: What About After You Deploy?	RubyConf TH 2026	2026-01-31
Framework for deploying Rails centers on five operational risks: errors, data, speed, security, lead time. Recommends concrete tools and practices: use… Talk on
Operating Rails: what about after you deploy?	Rocky Mountain Ruby 2025	2025-10-06
A checklist of concrete practices and failures: set up daily DB backups to GitHub Action artifacts (90 days) and test restores, push all deploys from CI/CD not… Talk on
How to calculate the phase of the moon very, very badly!	!!Con West 2019	2019-03-25
A lunar calendar app called Luna initially uses 27.321661 days (sidereal month) and drifts three days over 18 months; swapping in the average 29.530587981 days… Talk on
Pairing: a guide to fruitful collaboration 🍓🍑🍐	RailsConf 2018	2018-04-17
Pairing succeeds when it specifies actions not ideals: require driver and navigator roles, get consent on editor/OS/config, use a dedicated pairing station or… Talk on
A History of Bundles: 2010 to 2017	RubyConf 2017	2017-11-15
Bundler starts in 2010 as a simple installer and attracts thousands of hours of work to solve real problems: slow installs, huge apps, and inconsistent… Talk on
How does Bundler work anyway?	RubyConf AU 2017	2017-02-09
History of Ruby packaging leads to a concrete claim: Bundler performs install‑time dependency resolution, writes an exact list in Gemfile.lock, and loads those… Talk on
From no OSS experience to the core team in 15 minutes a day	RubyConf 2016	2016-11-10
Claim: a path to the core team with 15 minutes a day by using GitHub, reading README/contributing docs, following the issue tracker and reproducing bugs. The… Talk on
Lightning Talks	RubyConf 2016	2016-11-10
Thirty lightning talks compress concrete takeaways: RubyGems traffic hits 4 billion gems and funds are needed to keep mirrors running; practical Git rescue… Lightning on
Lies, Damn Lies, and Metrics	Strange Loop 2016	2016-09-16
Averages routinely lie: dashboards that show only means obscure bimodal traffic and hide one slow server among fifteen; New Relic defaults to averages even… Talk on
Panel - Package Managers: Before and After npm	npm camp 2016	2016-07-30
Panel records concrete outcomes: bundler solved app-level conflicts (the rack version clash) so apps can pin exact working sets; cargo enforces repeatable… Panel on
Don't Forget the Network: Your App is Slower Than You Think	RailsConf 2016	2016-05-04
Claim: user-perceived latency includes routing and network time often invisible in New Relic and can add 50% or more to response time; use New Relic queue… Talk on
Including People	Ruby on Ales 2016	2016-03-31
An open source project uses explicit codes of conduct, layered documentation (tutorials, topic guides, API reference, troubleshooting) and scheduled pairing… Talk on
How does Bundler work, anyway?	RubyConf 2015	2015-11-15
History shows why Bundler exists and how it works: it runs an install-time dependency resolver to pick exact versions (RubyGems adds multiple versions so… Talk on
Security Is Hard, But We Can't Go Shopping	RedDotRuby 2015	2015-06-04
Counts a burst of releases and finds a surprising cluster of critical fixes across many gems over eight weeks including bundler rubygems rack json and others… Talk on
How Does Bundler Work, Anyway?	RailsConf 2015	2015-04-21
History shows how require setup.rb and rubygems lead to bundler which does two concrete things it resolves versions ahead of time using heuristics for an NP… Talk on
Lightning Talks	RailsConf 2015	2015-04-21
Quick bursts: a claim to train 100,000 African software engineers with Andela; a production concurrency tool (Parallel Minion) handling hundreds of threads and… Lightning on
Extreme Makeover - Rubygems Edition	RubyConf AU 2014	2014-02-19
Describes a concrete rewrite of Rubygems and Bundler that replaces the old client server interactions with a rewritten client/server protocol and local index… Talk on
Extreme Makeover: Rubygems Edition	RubyFuza 2014	2014-02-06
Accidental DDOS raised rubygems.org load by 15–20×, prompting a rebuilt Bundler dependency API as a Sinatra app on Heroku (many dynos + large Postgres) and… Talk on
Deathmatch Bundler vs Rubygems.org	GoRuCo 2013	2013-06-08
The team reimplements the Bundler API, measures with Librato and Papertrail, and scales on Heroku; the result is an index and service that make rubygems.org… Talk on
Security is hard, but we can't go shopping	RailsConf 2013	2013-04-29
Ruby and Rails are seeing a surge of vulnerabilities: three Ruby releases in six months, 13 CVEs so far this year for Rails, and concrete incidents like… Talk on
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