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RR 362: Measuring Ruby Performance with Rails and Discourse with Noah Gibbs

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Panel:

  • Charles Max Wood
  • David Richards
  • Dave Kimura
  • Catherine Meyers

    • Special Guests: Noah Gibbs

    In this episode of Ruby Rogues, the panelists talk to Noah Gibbs about measuring Ruby performance with Rails and Discourse. Noah wrote a book called Rebuilding Rails and is currently analyzing Ruby performance for AppFolio. They talk about how he puts benchmarks around Discourse, the 2 distinct audiences that come to Rails, and how Rails is constantly improving. They also touch on his life as a programmer leading up to being a Ruby fellow and much more!

    In particular, we dive pretty deep on:

    • Catherine intro
    • Noah intro
    • Engineering.appfolio.com
    • Ruby Weekly
    • Do you find that your benchmark is applicable worldwide?
    • Rails is going to continue to rise and fall
    • Ruby code goes up and down with Rails in the US
    • Hanami
    • How do you put benchmarks around Discourse?
    • Messy and requires a lot of tooling
    • Always a balance in a benchmark
    • The “real world” is messy
    • 2 distinct audiences for Rails
    • Rails is transitioning over time
    • Nothing has ever come close to Rails
    • Technology revolves around what’s hot
    • Recent shift in technology
    • Server-less technology
    • The life of a Ruby fellow
    • And much, much more!

      • Links:

      • Ruby
      • Rails
      • Discourse
      • Rebuilding Rails
      • AppFolio
      • Engineering.appfolio.com
      • Ruby Weekly
      • Hanami
      • @codefolio
      • Noah’s GitHub

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        Charles

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        • DevChat.tv YouTube

          • Dave

          • Marvel Strike Force
          • GitLab

            • David

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            • Principles: Life and Work by Ray Dalio

              • Catherine

              • Hacking Growth by Sean Ellis
              • Http Cat

                • Noah

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                • Draw with Jazza
                • The Origins of Opera and the Future of Programming by Jessica Kerr
                  • ...more
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