As teams build and compose more services, their dependency on logging grows exponentially. Being able to quickly make use make use of those logs can easily mean the difference between quickly finding a bug and struggling to even understand it for weeks. For this reason, services that make their logging data easy to consume by tools result in "higher order logs", allowing the logs to be usable data rather than just walls of text.

 

In this talk, we'll go over:

 

 * Why you should use structured logs

 * How to add structured logs to ruby services

 * What you should log in the first place!

 * Tools and workflows to make use of those structured logs

Structured Logging: Understanding Service Chaos - Ruby Remote Conf 2015

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The past, present, and future of RubyGems.org and what you'll see from the Ruby community's package manager site. Oh, and some GIFs too.

RubyGems.Next - Ruby Remote Conf 2015

Rubygems 2.0 had partial Gemfile support, with Rubygems 2.2 almost all of functionalities ofBundler can be replicated with Rubygems, lets stop using extra layers when the core already does what we want to achieve.

Bundler to Rubygems: Long Live the Gemfile - Ruby Remote Conf 2015

The world of programming is changing. It's becoming clear that functional languages are the new mainstream. But how do you write code without objects and classes? For the answers, we can look both forwards and backwards, looking at the functional ideas of transformation, combined with some cool techniques from programming's adolescence. 

Let’s Code Like It’s 1969! - Ruby Remote Conf 2015

Creating games is crazy-fun and dirt simple with Ruby. If you can make a web app, you can make a game. This session will introduce basic concepts of game programming and show how to implement them using the Gosu library. This includes the game loop, sprites, animation, etc. And it will be fun!

Writing Games with Ruby - Ruby Remote Conf 2015

Peter briefly built Rails apps for a living, but quickly discovered the beauty of using Ruby as a catch-all "Swiss Army knife" for jobs all over the place. In his talk, he'll look at how Ruby can be rapidly put to work doing all sorts of random things that help in other types of day to day work.

Structured Logging: Understanding Service Chaos - Ruby Remote Conf 2015

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