Eclectics Unite - Leverage Your Diverse Background
Explore how diverse experiences in translation, snowboarding, and drumming can enhance software development skills and provide unique perspectives in Ruby programming.
Performance Does - Not - Matter
Explore Ruby's creator Matz's insights on performance optimization, balancing speed with developer happiness, and the future direction of the language.
Let's Standardize Rails, Once and For All!
Participate in a community-driven effort to establish standardized Rails conventions through a town hall-style event, voting on rubocop-rails rules to create a consensus-based linter and formatter for Rails developers.
Building a World Class Engineering Organization - Learning from Cave Paintings and Horsey Land Art
Explore principles for building enduring engineering organizations, drawing insights from ancient structures and applying them to modern Rails app development.
Using Rails Engines to Supercharge Your Team
Explore Rails engines as powerful tools for modular development, focusing on their role in implementing GraphQL Federation at Doximity and enhancing team productivity.
Off to the Races
Explore race conditions in Rails apps: detection, reproduction, testing, and fixing strategies for shared resources and multi-process environments.
Who Wants to Be a Ruby Engineer?
Interactive game show exploring Ruby's quirks and challenging developers to predict code outputs, enhancing understanding of the language's nuances and edge cases.
Building an Offline Experience with a Rails-Powered PWA
Discover how to transform your Rails app into a Progressive Web App, enabling offline functionality and native-like experiences using Rails 7's front-end tools.
Don't Be Afraid of the Scary Red Error Messages; They're Actually Our Friends
Embrace errors as learning opportunities to enhance coding skills and deliver quality solutions. Discover actionable strategies for handling failures and growing from mistakes.
Migrating Shopify's Core Rails Monolith to Trilogy
Explore Shopify's migration from Mysql2 to Trilogy, covering MySQL protocols, Active Record adapters, and open source contributions. Learn about implementation challenges and the impact on Shopify's monolith.
Building Ruby Head for Your Rails App
Learn to build and run Ruby head on Docker for Rails app testing, exploring Docker, jemalloc, and the benefits of using cutting-edge Ruby versions in your development workflow.
How Rails Fosters a Diverse and Competitive Tech Ecosystem in the Era of Big Tech
Explore how Rails promotes diversity and competition in tech, challenging big tech patterns with economic and organizational critiques of microservices and single-page apps.
Faster and Cheaper Websites - Integrating Next-Gen Images in Your Rails Apps
Explore next-gen image integration in Rails to boost website speed, conversion rates, and SEO. Learn about WebP images and a new gem for seamless implementation.
How to Upstream Your Code to Rails
Learn the process of contributing to Rails, from identifying good contributions to navigating the review process, with insights from a real-world feature upstreaming experience.
Demystifying the Unionizing Process
Explore the unionization process, its impact on workplaces, and implications for software developers in a post-pandemic world.
Forecasting the Future - An Introduction to Machine Learning for Weather Prediction in Native Ruby
Explore building weather prediction models using machine learning in Ruby, covering data preparation, linear regression, and practical implementation techniques for Rubyists of all levels.
10x Your Teamwork Through Pair Programming
Discover the highs, lows, and best practices of pair programming through an engaging live demonstration, offering insights to enhance teamwork and productivity in software development.
Go Passwordless with WebAuthn in Ruby
Explore WebAuthn for passwordless authentication in Ruby apps. Learn its benefits, implementation, and how it enhances security and user experience using biometrics and public-key cryptography.
ActiveRecord - Encryption - Stop Hackers from Reading Your Data
Learn to implement ActiveRecord::Encryption in Rails applications, including benefits, pitfalls, and real-world experiences from GitHub's implementation. Gain confidence in securing sensitive data.
What Could Go Wrong
Explore common Go programming pitfalls and learn from Timehop Engineering's mistakes, including typed nils, bloated interfaces, and runaway goroutines.
Betting the Company on Go and Winning
Go's impact on CoreOS: From early adoption to powering distributed systems and open-source projects. Insights on challenges faced and lessons learned in building a company around Go.