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

Panel: 

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

Special Guests: Noah GibbsIn 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

Picks:Charles

• Hogwarts Battles
• DevChat.tv YouTube

Dave

• Marvel Strike Force
• GitLab

David

• Docker Deep Dive by Nigel Poulton
• Principles: Life and Work by Ray Dalio

Catherine

• Hacking Growth by Sean Ellis
• Http Cat

Noah

• Wacom Tablet
• Draw with Jazza
• The Origins of Opera and the Future of Programming by Jessica Kerr

Special Guest: Noah Gibbs.

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