May 18, 2011
Veteran Pivot David Stevenson gives his thoughts on the when, why, and how of performance optimization in Rails. He touches on a few of the approaches that make sense and the best tools for each approach.…[More]
June 08, 2011
If you don’t measure it, you can’t optimize it. Coda Hale of Yammer talks about service-level performance metrics, how they use them to guide their development strategy, and how you can improve the transparency of your own software.…[More]
June 23, 2010
Ian McFarland, Principal and VP of Technology for Pivotal Labs, reprises his popular RailsConf 2010 talk. Ian describes the technical and social aspects of how Pivotal practices agile software development.…[More]
September 02, 2009
Yehuda Katz, member of the Rails core team, describes the many new ways to extend Rails 3, including the overall philosophy of extending ActionController and how to use ActiveModel to better integrate your non-ActiveRecord Ruby objects and Rails.…[More]