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Aug 29 2020

Upgrading GitHub to Ruby 2.7

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Upgrading GitHub to Ruby 2.7
GitHub recently upgraded to Ruby 2.7. Learn how the team approached the deprecation warnings, why upgrading is important, and the notable performance improvements.
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Rails
Over 2,000 members of the Rails community from 92 countries kindly contributed their thoughts on tools, frameworks, and workflows in their day to day development lives. From these responses we hope to get an understanding of where Rails stands as a framework in 2020.
Everyone has a production profiler. Shopify, Basecamp, and Github all use production profilers.
Ruby
The magic of Ruby’s respond_to method.
Most likely you’re here to look at graphs and see what’s the fastest ruby implementation out there.
Beyond Ruby
In January 2019, we set out to rewrite the critical software that powers all online storefronts on Shopify’s platform to offer the fastest online shopping experience possible, entirely from scratch and without downtime.
We look at how Shard Manager is fully integrated in Facebook's infrastructure ecosystem and provides a holistic, end-to-end solution supporting basic shard failover as well as sophisticated load balancing, shard scaling, and operational safety.
Blast from the past
BDD versus TDD. This test tool versus that test tool. Test-before versus test-after versus this-works-trust-me. At some point I got tired of the debates about details. I prefer to discuss principles.

Documenting All Ruby Specialities.
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