📄️ The Power of Improv: Unlocking Your Creative Potential as a Developer
This interactive keynote will explore how improvisation can help you maximize your strengths as a developer.
📄️ Managing the Burnout Burndown
In addition to managing backlogs and burndown charts, technology leaders have to follow an ever-changing software landscape, manage team dynamics, and navigate office politics. It’s no surprise that this leads to burnout. This talk will provide tools to help manage stress and reduce burnout.
📄️ Exploring the Power of Turbo Streams and ActionCable
Dive into the world of Turbo Streams and ActionCable with the Dragon Rider Eragon and his majestic dragon, Saphira, as we build a real-time tic-tac-toe game.
📄️ Catch Me If You Can: Learning to Process Webhooks in Your Rails App
In this workshop, you’ll learn how to catch and process webhooks like a pro.
📄️ A Brewer's Guide to Filtering out Complexity and Churn
Mechanical coffee machines are amazing! You drop in a coin, listen for the clink, make a selection, and the machine springs to life, hissing, clicking, and whirring.
📄️ Building a more effective, bidirectional mentor-mentee relationship
Mentorship is such a key part of our industry that most of us will act as both mentor and mentee many times over the course of our careers.
📄️ Teaching Capybara Testing - An Illustrated Adventure
100%! Red the lemur was so excited to have 100% test coverage, finally, after unit testing all of his Ruby code. With that, he was done, the code was tested, and he could call it a day.
📄️ A custom design pattern for building dynamic ActiveRecord queries
The pain is familiar to long-time developers of enterprise Rails applications. Database queries through ActiveRecord are an essential part of our application. And making these queries performant, dynamic, and readable is hard.
📄️ Building an offline experience with a Rails-powered PWA
Progressive web applications (PWAs) allow us to provide rich offline experiences as native apps would, while still being easy to use and share, as web apps are.
📄️ Applying microservices patterns to a modular monolith
Dealing with legacy monoliths can be challenging due to accumulated technical debt. When faced with this situation, we usually start looking at different strategies to solve this, like microservices, engines, and modularization, just to name a few.
📄️ Forecasting the Future: An Introduction to Machine Learning for Weather Prediction in Native Ruby
Have you ever considered building a machine learning model in Ruby? It may surprise you to learn that you can train, build, and deploy ML models in Ruby. But what are the benefits of using Ruby over other languages?