A Ruby Developer Conference RubyHACK 2019
April 4th - 5th, 2019 in Sandy, Utah

BIO:

MINASWAN

Matz Is Nice And So We Are Nice

Ruby's Father since 1993

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Description:
Ruby3 is at hand but we still have things to clear up. Matz explains the current status of Ruby3 and the remaining issues.

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Ben has been programming in various forms for 20 years.  He got his start in middle school writing games and math programs targeting the original TI-83 calculator, and building websites aroudn his calculator hobby.  In 2013 Ben was englightened in the ways of Ruby, and has used Ruby for many projects both personally and professional ever since.  He specializes in backend and devops related work, but enjoys dabbling all over the stack.  In his spare time he enjoys spending time with his  kids, playing guitar, and studying philosophy.

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Description:
You've heard of this "better ruby" before, and it sounds intriguing. It's performant, very scalable, and functional. But, it's a bit weird. It looks a lot like ruby, but there's some big things that are different. Come learn how to survive in the jungle if all you have is Elixir and Phoenix!

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JohnnyT (a.k.a. John Thornton) has been developing web applications for 20 years, the last 12 of which have been in Ruby. He was whisked away to the wondorous world of Smalltalk in 2010 after looking into MagLev - a Ruby with native object persistence.

When he's not programming - he's hanging out with his wife and three young kids (which have taken over as his side project for the last number of years) and recently started playing bass again in a local band after a 10 year hiatus.

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Description:
Do you know when your API keys are being used? Do you want to make compliance audits easier? Can you immediately stop rogue apps from decrypting sensitive data (during a data breach)? Come learn how to level up your app security and answer "yes" to these and more.

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Full Stack Software Engineer at Square Inc. living in San Francisco. I am passionate about software that delivers both great customer and developer experience. Outside of work I am a coffee enthusiast and painter.

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Description:
Integrating GraphQL Ruby includes repetitive and straightforward processes that can be metaprogrammed. I will detail metaprogramming a GraphQL API from a demo app and explain the benefits of this design pattern and how it improves developer experience.

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Loving my wife, my sons, and my work. Building @codeship by day and @packtrackerio by night, otherwise you can probably find me outside. ⛺️

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Description:
In a world of emerging JavaScript, is Rails getting left behind? Are server-side MVC applications out and static single page applications in? In this talk I’ll describe how we’ve used webpack(er) and Vue to revitalize our JavaScript approach within an aging Rails application. You can have it both ways.

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Currently a software engineer at MX - I've worn many hats in development, product, and management.  Memes are my love language.

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Description:
The game of LIFEcycle events (create, update, delete) is often the starting point for complex code, nasty race conditions, and technical debt. You will learn a few patterns I’ve put together for how to cleanly manage lifecycle events in various architectures and give examples of when and why you should use them.

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Dave is a solid technical leader with experience in managing highly effective teams in completing projects on time, solving problems creatively, and following through on commitments. He enjoys researching a problem, designing a way to solve that problem and then executing on that plan while helping his teams maintain a good work-life balance and morale.

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Description:
The need for developer resources is only increasing and while you may like the next offer you get, you may want to step back and decide if it's really what you want to do. Based on own experience and the experience of others in the field, Dave will share a few ideas on how to make the decision on your next career move.

BIO:

Fernando Seror is currently working as a Rails engineer for Clearcover, in Chicago. Before that, he was leading an engineering team on another startup, where he learned the importance of bringing people together. These days he's obsessed with dynamics between peers and growing his current team into a successful powerhouse.

When he's not in front of the keyboard, he loves to practice rock climbing and watch movies with his roommates.

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Description:
There are people that are such great teachers that they awaken a special interest in what they teach. When on a team, they add immense value. Join me on this journey to become a great mentor for your peers!

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Kelly Sutton is an engineering manager at Gusto. In the past, he helped create LayerVault, Designer News, and a blog for college students. He is currently based in San Francisco, CA. He regularly writes blog posts about software engineering at https://kellysutton.com

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Description:
In the recent years, microservices have been an investment among many engineering teams as they scale. They are often the default of many new companies. But how has that gone wrong? This talk will dive into how one company of ~100 engineers refined their thinking and their Rails app for the better.

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Jason Swett is a developer, trainer, writer, speaker and host of the Ruby Testing Podcast. In addition to writing code Jason enjoys writing songs, reading history books and riding his bike unreasonably long distances. Jason lives in Sand Lake, Michigan with his wife and two sons.

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Description:
Most of the production projects we developers work on are, to some extent, legacy projects. Legacy project work is often characterized by painfully low development velocity, scary deployments, frequent bugs and outages, and less-than-thrilled stakeholders. It's not a lot of fun. Fortunately it's possible to mitigate the pains of maintaining a legacy project. Automated tests can be used as a tool to permanently fix bugs, speed up development velocity and turn deployments into a non-event.

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Molly Struve is a Sr. Site Reliability Engineer at Kenna Security. Given her degree in Aerospace Engineering from MIT, it is no surprise that Molly thrives on optimizing code performance. When not making code run faster, she can be found fulfilling her need for speed by riding and jumping her show horses.

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Description:
Sometimes your fastest queries can cause the most problems. I'll take you beyond the slow query optimization and instead zero in on the performance impacts surrounding the quantity of your datastore hits.. Using real world examples dealing with datastores such as Elasticsearch, MySQL, and Redis, I will demonstrate how many fast queries can wreak just as much havoc as a few big slow ones. With each example I will make use of the simple tools available in Ruby to decrease and eliminate the need for these fast and seemingly innocuous datastore hits.

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Brandon is an Artist turned Programmer who enjoys teaching programming with cartoon lemurs, whimsy, bad jokes, and of course puns.  He currently works at Square as a Platform Engineer on the Frameworks and Language Support team, defining Ruby standards and common infrastructure

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Description:
Meet Red. Red is a reducing lemur, and he loves to sum things using the reduce method. The problem is, with Ruby 2.4+ and the sum method he's starting to think reduce isn't that useful anymore. Distraught, Red asks his master for advice, and she sends him off on a grand journey to learn the true powers of the reduce method by reimplementing various methods from Enumerable. Join Red on an illustrated adventure through the land of Enumerable as he learns to map, select, find, and more using his trusty reduce. If you're new to Ruby and Functional Programming, this is the talk for you.