title	conference	date
Keynote Part 1	EmberConf 2023	2023-07-20
Polaris brings a concrete migration: Ember 5.0 aligns with modern tooling by landing Ember template imports so templates live in JS files via a template tag… Talk on
Build a Universal Reactive Data Library with Starbeam	JSNation 2023	2023-06-01
StarBeam is a standalone reactive library that can be intermixed with React. It provides reactive versions of JavaScript built-in collections and allows for… Talk on
Starbeam: Universal Reactivity And What It Means For You	Philly ETE 2023	2023-04-11
Starbeam is a reactivity library extracted from Ember that builds cells, resources, services and element modifiers as universal reactive primitives and ships… Talk on
Starbeam, and what it means for Ember	EmberFest 2022	2022-09-22
A new reactivity library called Starbeam exists today after about nine months of work, with a working React renderer and a Svelte prototype, and Starbeam 0.7… Talk on
Announcing Starbeam: Universal Reactivity	JSNation Conference 2022	2022-06-16
Announcing Starbeam as a library for universal reactivity and showing a working users table built inside a React app, the demo implements… Talk on
Keynote Part 1	EmberConf 2022	2022-04-19
A roadmap for Ember’s next edition explains concrete wins: template tag moves templates into JS so components, helpers and modifiers use normal imports… Talk on
Fireside Chat with Yehuda Katz and Ed Faulkner	EmberConf 2022	2022-04-19
Explains a concrete reactivity extraction called Starbeam that already runs tests and yields a tiny database‑style library built on its primitives, shows how… Panel on
Keynote Part 1	EmberConf 2021	2021-03-29
Ember adopts a disciplined six-week release channels model with feature flags and tooling (Ember CLI, HTMLBars) to stage big changes without breaking apps; an… Talk on
Opening Keynote	EmberConf 2020	2020-03-16
Ember ships a concrete plan: Ember Octane lands as a December minor stable release that is HTML-first, adds auto-tracking, template-only components, element… Talk on
Inside Rails...	RailsConf 2019	2019-05-01
Explains exactly how an HTTP request becomes a controller method: DNS → TCP/HTTP → web server → use and run in config.ru → Rack ENV hash → middleware chain →… Talk on
Opening Keynote	EmberConf 2019	2019-03-18
Ember announces an Octane addition: a coherent snapshot bundling JavaScript classes, Glimmer components, angle-bracket invocation, and a new change system… Talk on
Enabling Web Developers to Build the Future of the Web	CascadiaJS 2018	2018-11-15
A first-person account explains concrete wins: a 230+ response survey that proves developer demand, joining TC39 to add web developers where there were none… Talk on
Using Skylight to Solve Real-World Performance Problems	RailsConf 2018	2018-04-17
Skylight shows median and 95th percentile latencies rather than averages and pinpoints slow endpoints by combining slowness with popularity so fixes matter. It… Talk on
Opening Keynote	EmberConf 2018	2018-03-12
Roadmap announces concrete changes: a conventional pods-style file layout with codemods to migrate apps, making jQuery optional (≈30KB) and reducing default… Talk on
The Feedback Loop: Growing healthy open source projects	Keep Ruby Weird 2017	2017-10-27
Argues that healthy projects adopt a one-OSS vs two-OSS governance model, favor positive-sum solutions over zero-sum shortcuts, and actively turn frustrated… Talk on
Introducing Helix: High-Performance Ruby Made Easy	RailsConf 2017	2017-04-25
Helix is an open source toolkit that compiles Rust into native Ruby extensions so Rails apps get C‑like speed without segfault risk; Skylight extracts it from… Talk on
Opening Keynote	EmberConf 2017	2017-03-28
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Zen and the Art of Package Management	RubyConf Portugal 2016	2016-10-27
Built three package managers — Bundler, Cargo, Yarn — and compares concrete behaviors: Cargo enforces semver (it refuses to publish "" ranges), NPM install is… Talk on
Small Details, Big Impact	RailsConf 2016	2016-05-04
Skylight swaps an unreadable RPM column for a Popularity icon sized to avoid misleading log‑normal distributions, proves the triangle meter works better than… Talk on
Stability Without Stagnation: Lessons Learned Shipping Ember	Philly ETE 2016	2016-04-11
Ember uses a disciplined pipeline — RFCs, feature flags, Canary → Beta → Release every six-week release cycle with LTS every fourth release — to land breaking… Talk on
Opening Keynote	EmberConf 2016	2016-03-28
Conference updates list concrete outcomes not fluff: community grows to almost 1,950 attendees, ember CLI logs 52 million live reload events and ember… Talk on
The Future of Ember Templating	EmberConf 2016	2016-03-28
Glimmer 2 presents a concrete implementation: a pull‑based reference primitive plus an entity tag validation system and a compact revision tagging encoding… Talk on
Turbo Rails with Rust	RubyKaigi 2015	2015-12-11
Shows building a native Rails extension in Rust using a small runtime library and a file format that generates glue; Rust replaces C glue with libcruby plus… Talk on
Rewriting a Ruby C Extension in Rust	Full Stack Fest 2015	2015-09-01
Rewriting a Ruby C extension in Rust demonstrates that a straightforward Rust implementation of Sam Saffron’s fast_blank outperforms the hand‑written C… Talk on
Using Rust from C... or Any Language	RustCamp 2015	2015-08-01
Rust code compiles into a C-callable library and the claim is that production FFI is doable and safer than C++ after a year of work on Skylight where Ruby… Talk on
Bending the Curve: How Rust Helped Us Write Better Ruby	RailsConf 2015	2015-04-21
Skylight rewrites its Ruby agent in Rust and ships a featherweight agent that uses far less CPU and memory while collecting far more fine‑grained timing and… Talk on
What is Rust?	Philly ETE 2015	2015-04-07
Rust claims to eliminate segfaults and most memory leaks by enforcing ownership and borrowing at compile time instead of using a GC, giving no runtime GC yet… Talk on
Opening Keynote	EmberConf 2015	2015-03-03
Ember reports concrete wins: community grows to ~1,900 attendees, ember CLI records 52 million live‑reload events and 300,000 downloads a month, and ember… Talk on
A guide to Indie Open Source Software	dotJS 2014	2014-11-17
Argues that indie open source succeeds by specific practices: diversify core team membership across companies, insist on 20% time for maintainers who also ship… Talk on
Let’s Talk About Rust	GoGaRuCo 2014	2014-09-19
Rust claims C-like control and memory efficiency while proving safety and productivity: the compiler enforces ownership rules and gives a compile-time error if… Talk on
Keynote: 10 Years!	RailsConf 2014	2014-04-22
Rails claims that convention over configuration succeeds because human decision-making hits ego depletion, so defaults become the most effective psychological… Talk on
How to Build a Smart Profiler for Rails	RailsConf 2014	2014-04-22
Skylight claims to deliver honest response times by storing histograms and 95th percentile rollups, and it actually handles the scale of real traffic — the… Talk on
Lightning Talks	RailsConf 2014	2014-04-22
A rapid-fire sequence of demos and claims: micro‑events announce a Ruby hackfest; benchmarks compare JSON, MessagePack and Protocol Buffers across Ruby, Python… Lightning on
Keynote With Yehuda Katz and Tom Dale	Fluent 2014	2014-03-11
Argues that a framework should encode community best practices rather than just offer maximally flexible primitives, comparing Ember and Angular: Angular… Talk on
Yehuda Katz and Tom Dale (Tilde Inc.) interviewed at Fluent 2014	Fluent 2014	2014-03-11
Argues framework wars are overstated and shows why Ember trades flexibility for productivity by baking conventions into a larger codebase: Ember bakes in… Interview on
Keynote	EmberConf 2014	2014-03-02
Claim: Ember makes developers dramatically more productive on multi‑screen web apps. Evidence: six-week release cycle backed by automation, Ember 1.0 shipped… Talk on
Monitoring the Health of Your App	RailsConf 2013	2013-04-29
Argument: averages lie — web response times are long‑tailed so 95th percentile and histograms matter. Implementation: an MVP service (Skylight) instruments… Talk on
Building Web Applications with Ember.js	HTML5DevConf 2013	2013-04-01
Ember.js organizes app state into long‑lived models, session controllers and view templates, demonstrates URLs-first routing with nested outlets and automatic… Talk on
Tokaido: Making Ruby Better on OS X	RubyConf 2012	2012-11-01
Tokaido produces a relocatable, portable Ruby by statically linked Ruby 1.9.3 that embeds libssl libcrypto and libz so OS X no longer breaks on external… Talk on
Cruft and Technical Debt: A Long View	GoGaRuCo 2012	2012-09-14
Claim: cruft inevitably accumulates because external assumptions change faster than code, producing technical obsolescence distinct from intentional debt… Talk on
What's jQuery Doing on Standards?	jQuery Conference 2012 San Francisco	2012-06-28
jQuery Foundation joins W3C/ECMA, pushes concrete fixes: replaces jQuery’s synthetic-id query hacks by driving a proposed findAll/querySelectorAll scoping bug… Talk on
Lightning Talks - Part II	RailsConf 2012	2012-04-23
Lightning round of concrete takeaways: draw your engine routes on the engine itself and use isolate_namespace so engine and app routes coexist; aim for… Lightning on
Rails: The Next Five Years	RailsConf 2012	2012-04-23
Rails needs conventions for JSON APIs: Active Model Serializers is presented as a concrete solution that generates serializers with rails generators, hooks… Talk on
Ruby: The Challenges Ahead	MountainWest RubyConf 2011	2011-03-17
Argues Ruby must stop shipping only 80/20 hacks and finish the last 20 percent: real concurrency, library completeness, and language evolution. Points out SSL… Talk on
Extending Rails 3	GoGaRuCo 2010	2010-09-17
Rails 3.1 makes concrete changes: engine migrations get a copy-and-timestamp workflow so gems ship migrations safely; the static middleware uses a… Talk on
Writing Modular Ruby Code: Lessons Learned from Rails 3	MountainWest RubyConf 2010	2010-03-11
Argues against premature modularity and shows concrete Rails 3 changes: moves routing off globals so multiple routers and rackapps URL helpers work, converts… Talk on
Polishing Rubygems	RubyConf 2009	2009-11-19
After months building a wrapper around RubyGems the result is bundler which performs atomic dependency resolution, treats a repo or directory as a git-as-gem… Talk on
From Rails to Rack: Making Rails 3 a Better Ruby Citizen	GoRuCo 2009	2009-05-30
Explains concrete changes in Rails 3: adopts Rack so middleware like Rack middleware and router points at an action become first-class, lets… Talk on
Rails Core Panel	RailsConf 2009	2009-05-04
Panel answers focus on concrete changes and asks: progress on mountable reusable apps, a pluggable JSON backends mechanism to avoid json gem clashes, and a… Panel on
The Great Rails Refactor	MountainWest RubyConf 2009	2009-03-13
Explains the Rails/Merb merge roadmap and concrete engineering work: Rails 3 adopts action_orm proxies for true ORM agnosticism (two integration options for… Talk on
Using Jquery with Ruby Web Frameworks	Lone Star Ruby Conference 2008	2008-09-04
Writes an edit‑in‑place jQuery plugin test‑first using ScrewUnit and a Merb test plugin, implements behaviors until specs pass: click swaps a P for an input… Talk on
Merb the Pocket Rocket Framework	Lone Star Ruby Conference 2008	2008-09-04
Merb claims real speed — typical request paths hit ~500µs and some actions render <1 ms actions enabling apps at tens of millions of hits/day. It enforces a… Talk on
Lightning Talk: What Can We Learn from the Edge Projects?	Ruby Hoedown 2008	2008-08-08
Argues Ruby is viable for enterprise workloads with concrete fixes not slogans: rewrote C database drivers in a week to remove objections, measures a Merb… Lightning on
Faster, Better ORM with DataMapper	MountainWest RubyConf 2008	2008-03-28
DataMapper claims faster, more flexible ORM by using an identity map so repeated lookups reuse Ruby objects, and strategic eager loading that cuts typical N+1… Talk on
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