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 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

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