Sessions at RubyConf 2011 about Ruby and Concurrency with video

Saturday 1st October 2011

• Scaling Ruby with Actors, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Threads

  by Mike Perham

  The last two years have been a personal tour of EventMachine, Fibers and Threads for me as I've toured the ecosystem looking for a developer-friendly, efficient solution for scaling Ruby. Historically Threads have performed poorly in Ruby but guess what? - recent events may change your mind. Now would be a good time to give them a second chance.

  • Concurrency
  • Ruby

  At 10:25am to 11:15am, Saturday 1st October

  Coverage slide deck video

• Complex Ruby concepts dummified

  by Matt Aimonetti

  Programming languages, such as Ruby, are natural and elegant. But to achieve this elegance, things have to happen under the hood. Garbage Collection, concurrency, Global Interpreter Lock, metaprogramming, C extensions are just some of the things happening with or without our knowledge. Trying to understand these concepts, their implementations and their implications in daily coding might seem daunting. However, having a good understanding of these topics will make you a better developer. No CS degree or PhD required to attend this talk.

  • Concurrency
  • Garbage Collection
  • Global Interpreter Lock
  • parsers
  • Ruby

  At 3:05pm to 4:20pm, Saturday 1st October

  Coverage slide deck video