Podcast Episode Details

Pitchfork, Falcon, and Performant HTTP Servers - RUBY 587

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Jean Boussier is a Staff Engineer on Shopify's Ruby and Rails infrastructure team. He joins the show to talk about pitchfork. He begins by defining the pitchfork and describing how the application concept works. Moreover, he explains the reason why he wrote it and tackles some of its useful features. 
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Educational Links

• GitHub - Shopify/pitchfork
• To Thread or Not to Thread: An In-Depth Look at Ruby’s Execution Models
• Heap Profiler: Measure memory allocations and retentions of a Ruby code snippet
• Rails’ eager_load_namespaces
• The Deadline pattern
• Circuit Breakers in Ruby with Semian
• Performance tuning Falcon 
• Ruby’s New GVL Instrumentation API 

Socials

• Jean Boussier (@byroot@ruby.social) - Ruby.social
• GitHub : byroot
• Twitter: @_byroot

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• Valentino’s Working On: Docs GPT

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• Chuck - Sushi Go Party! 
• Chuck - Riverside.fm
• Jean - Ruby 3.2.0 Released
• Valentino - watchmeforever - Twitch
• Valentino - ivoanjo/gvl-tracing

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Published on 2 years, 9 months ago