Chad Fowler
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what they talk about
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where they keep going back
- RailsConf2 editions2009–2025
all 11 in the filters
on a stage with
- Aaron Pattersononce
- Benjamin Parronce
- Casey Carusoonce
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who talks about the same things
- David Heinemeier Hansson21 talks
- Sarah Mei24 talks
- PJ Hagerty26 talks
- Dave Thomas33 talks
- Andy Croll19 talks
- Ariel Caplan9 talks
| title | conference | date |
|---|---|---|
| Rails Then, Now, and Next: A Conversation with our Community | RailsConf 2025 | 2025-07-08 |
Panelists name the concrete wins and pain points: Rails powers 4.2 million users and a solo dev ships web plus iOS and Android apps using Turbo/Hotwire native… | ||
| Beyond Centralized Models | Akash Accelerate 2025 | 2025-06-23 |
Panelists give concrete wins and gaps: a decentralized inference provider beats Google on price by 90% cheaper by aggregating idle GPUs; Plurales demonstrates… | ||
| Keynote: Growing Old | RubyConf 2017 | 2017-11-15 |
Claim: software lasts when it’s born small, rebuilt often and encapsulated behind stupidly simple interfaces. Examples: Haskell service that outperforms… | ||
| Kill "Microservices" before its too late | Rocky Mountain Ruby 2016 | 2016-09-21 |
Argues that the word "microservices" is useless and the goal is decoupling for change, describing Wunderlist as ~100+ tiny services talking over HTTP+JSON… | ||
| From Homogeneous Monolith to Heterogeneous Microservices Architecture | GOTO Chicago 2015 | 2015-05-11 |
Migrates a monolithic Rails backend into a heterogenous microservices stack with 150 services and a mix of Scala, Haskell, Rust, Go, Node and Ruby; builds an… | ||
| Legacy | GOTO Amsterdam 2014 | 2014-06-19 |
Argues legacy should mean lasting value and says most delivered business software lives about five years while Joel Spolsky claims it takes ~10 years to become… | ||
| Wunderlist: High Volume, Multi-Master, Cross-Platform, Distr. DB System | GOTO Amsterdam 2014 | 2014-06-19 |
Wunderlist 3 rewrites sync as a multimaster, replicating database that runs on iPhone, Android, web and desktop, using a git-like revision tree with merges and… | ||
| How to Become Accomplished | GOTO Aarhus 2013 | 2013-09-30 |
Gives concrete habits: treat yourself as a product by choosing a market, investing in skills and an org chart even as one person, and breaking life into… | ||
| This is Not a Rails Shop | Aloha RubyConf 2012 | 2012-10-08 |
Help us caption & translate this video!
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| Keynote Day 2 – Chad Fowler | Cascadia Ruby 2011 | 2011-07-29 |
Argues that “quality” must be turned into measurable claims and shows concrete tools and results: uses quality function deployment spreadsheets to map fuzzy… | ||
| Welcome and Announcements | RailsConf 2009 | 2009-05-04 |
Fourth international RailsConf opens in Las Vegas with many first-time attendees and a handful who've been all four years. Sponsors Engine Yard and Bluebox… | ||
| Charity Workshop: Ruby and Rails Testing Techniques | Ruby Hoedown 2007 | 2007-08-24 |
Claims that Flex mock makes testing and design easier, recommends using mocking routinely for nontrivial unit tests, and shows a concrete example: dealer.draw… | ||
| Keynote: '...then what?' | MountainWest RubyConf 2007 | 2007-03-16 |
Claim: Ruby wins mainstream adoption — evidence: first International RubyConf had 39–40 people, by 2005 rooms of ~200 with ~50 doing Ruby professionally… | ||
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