Nate Berkopec
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| title | conference | date |
|---|---|---|
| Autoresearching Ruby Performance with LLMs | RubyKaigi 2026 | 2026-04-22 |
AutoResearch runs LLM agents against benchmarks and opens PRs using Pi auto research and simple tools; one Sidekiq run reports 21,000 jobs/sec and yields… | ||
| How Puma Works | RubyConf AU 2023 | 2023-02-16 |
Puma explains how a pre-forking + threaded model actually runs Rails: master forks workers that share a listening socket, each worker has a thread pool that… | ||
| Keynote: A Beginner's Guide to Puma Internals | RubyConf TH 2022 | 2022-12-09 |
Puma is a Rack web server that combines pre-forking + thread-pool model with an in-process reactor buffers incomplete requests to avoid blocking threads on… | ||
| A Third Way For Open-Source Maintenance | RailsConf 2021 | 2021-04-12 |
Argues a "third way" between paying every maintainer and leaving projects alone: treat maintainer work as encouraging contribution not doing everything, break… | ||
| Profiling and Benchmarking 101 | RailsConf 2019 | 2019-05-01 |
Explains a concrete workflow: read production metrics (New Relic, Skylight, Scout), profile the problematic action in development, then isolate and micro/macro… | ||
| Orbital Rocket Guidance with Ruby | Rubyfuza 2018 | 2018-02-01 |
Uses Kerbal Space Program plus the kRPC gem and Ruby to emulate an Apollo Guidance Computer style controller, building a cooperative multitasker with… | ||
| Orbital Rocket Guidance with Ruby | RubyConf 2017 | 2017-11-15 |
Uses Kerbal Space Program with kRPC and Realism Overhaul to control a simulated Saturn V from Ruby, implements AGC-like multitasking with Fibers and a… | ||
| Memory Fragmentation and Bloat in Ruby | RubyKaigi 2017 | 2017-09-18 |
Explains why Ruby processes hold peak memory (bloat) and slowly grow (fragmentation), names the allocator and per-thread arenas as culprits, and gives concrete… | ||
| Panel: Performance... performance | RailsConf 2017 | 2017-04-25 |
Panel lists actual tools and concrete fixes: Derailed Benchmarks, mini-profiler, New Relic and Chrome throttling, and a memory profiler are used to prove… | ||
| Your App Server Config is Wrong | RailsConf 2017 | 2017-04-25 |
Claim: misconfigured app servers waste money and add timeouts. Uses Heroku metrics, Puma settings, jemalloc, PG bouncer, New Relic/Skylight/Scout or oink for… | ||
| Halve Your Memory Usage With These 12 Weird Tricks | RubyConf 2016 | 2016-11-10 |
Claims twelve concrete tricks that can halve your memory usage, targets MRI/C Ruby, and gives numbers: aim for 300 megabytes per instance, expect logarithmic… | ||
| Making a Rails App with 140 Characters (or less) | RailsConf 2016 | 2016-05-04 |
Start from the claim: Rails can be shrunk to a tweet. The demo pares 433 lines across 61 files down to a one‑line shell command using Rack and the railtie… | ||
| A Guided Read of Minitest | RubyConf 2015 | 2015-11-15 |
Minitest claims huge compactness: 1,586 lines of Ruby versus RSpec’s ~15,000, and a tiny mocking file (minitest-mock.rb) about 28× smaller. The code actually… | ||
| Rails 5, Turbolinks 3, and the future of View-Over-the-Wire | GORUCO 2015 | 2015-06-20 |
Claims that Rails 5 with Turbolinks (Turbolinks 3) can deliver sub-100ms UI by sending HTML over the wire instead of moving logic to client JavaScript, and… | ||
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