Brian is the founder of Builder Methods and brings longtime Ruby, Rails, and SaaS experience, having built and sold multiple software products over the past decade. He'll explore what actually changes when experienced developers start building with AI — and what doesn't.
Elena & Emma from GitHub's Performance Engineering team will teach you how to read flamegraphs — the visualization that shows exactly where your code spends time. They'll demonstrate through a real production story where profiling a single page cut CPU consumption by 13%.
Craig is a DevOps Engineer at PassEntry. A former professional musician who transitioned into tech via Le Wagon, he'll share different strategies for managing multi-tenancy in Sidekiq, especially balancing cost and compute with shuffle sharding.
Iliana is a Senior Product Engineer at Intercom, where their 3 million line monolith runs on the main branch of Rails. She'll share 15 years of upgrade stories — the things that broke, the monkey patches, and getting 300 engineers comfortable on unreleased Rails.
Alex is a Senior Staff Software Engineer at Shopify who's been writing Ruby for over 10 years. He'll talk about improving healthcare in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, with a Rails app for mobile medical clinics.
Rémy is a senior developer at thoughtbot and creator of Astronoby, an astronomy Ruby gem. He'll explore why time is genuinely weird and work through practical patterns for handling it safely in Ruby and Rails.
Maria is a software developer at Shopify who'll draw on her love of movies and storytelling to show what screenwriting can teach us about writing code and prompts.
We'll also have lightning talks from Tekin on internationalisation, Tijmen on what woodworking can teach us about software, and Jennie on kindness in development teams.
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