The HTTP working group is working at full speed on HTTP 2.0 - yes, really! Curious to know what lies ahead for HTTP 2.0, how it will affect and improve performance of our web applications, what problems it solves, and what you need to do to prepare and make the best use of the...
Google loves speed, and we want to make the entire web faster - yes, that includes your Rails app! We'll explore what we've learned from running our own services at scale, as well as cover the research, projects, and open sourced tools we've developed in the process.
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JavaScript is great, but let's face it, being stuck with just JavaScript in the browser is no fun. Why not write and run Ruby in the browser, on the client, and on the server as part of your next web application? Don't believe it, think its a crazy or an awesome idea, or think...
Goliath is an open source, event-driven I/O framework, much like node.js or Tornado, except that Goliath is based on EventMachine, features a Ruby API, and most importantly, does away with the asynchronous "callback muck" by utilizing Ruby 1.9's Fibers to preserve the nice syn...
The world of concurrent computation is a complicated one. We have to think about the hardware, the runtime, and even choose between half a dozen different models and primitives: fork/wait, threads, shared memory, message passing, semaphores, and transactions just to name a few...
Machine learning is a discipline that is concerned with the design and development of algorithms that allow computers to evolve behaviors based on empirical data — a fancy name for a simple concept. Behind all the buzzword algorithms such as Decision Trees, Singular Value D...
A high-performance proxy server is less than a hundred lines of Ruby code and it is an indispensable tool for anyone who knows how to use it. In this session we will walk through the basics of event-driven architectures and high-performance network programming in Ruby using th...
