RR 362: Measuring Ruby Performance with Rails and Discourse with Noah Gibbs
Published: May 15, 2018
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
Picks:
Charles
Dave
David
Catherine
Noah
Special Guest: Noah Gibbs.