failure-driven/conference-notes

A review of all the conferences in 2023

Conferences 2023

A review of all the conferences in 2023

• as seen on Melbourne Ruby

  • and originally proposed as rubyaustralia/melbourne-ruby#205

• slides will be available https://failure-driven.github.io/conferences-2023/

Notes

all my "raw" notes with a lot of links to videos etc

2024

• NOTES_Programmable_Melbourne_2024.md
• NOTES_DDD_Melbourne_2024.md
• NOTES_NDC_Sydney_2024.md

2023

• lastConf
• NOTES_OpenConf_Athens.md
• NOTES_RubyConfTH_Bangkok_2023.md
• NOTES_RubyKaigi_Matsumoto_2023.md
• NOTES_RailsConf_Atlanta_2023.md
• NOTES_ReactMiami_Miami_2023.md
• NOTES_Programmable_Melbourne_Sydney_2023.md
• NOTES_RubyConfAU_Melbourne_2023.md
• NOTES_RubyConfTH_Bangkok_2022.md

Plan

Original form the issue

I have had the opportunity to attend a heap of recent ruby related conferences. In this talks I will share:

1. what I have learnt
2. how I got to go
3. upcoming conferences
4. how to get the most out of conferences

The conferences covered are:

• RubyConfTH Bangkok 2022 & 2023
• RubyConfAU Melbourne 2023
• Programmable Melbourne/Sydney 2023
• TestBash Spring London | Remote 2023
• ReactMiami 2023
• RailsConf Atlanta 2023
• RubyKaigi Matsumoto 2023
• and coming soon CPP Canada, RustConf Albuquerque, ReactSummit Amsterdam | Remote, NDC Copenhagen

talk will be anywhere from 10min - 40min and include some audience interaction and games if we go for the longer version

What I can deliver

• Who am I
  • interactive code FTW
• How I got here
  • 100 submissions for 10 acceptances
    • show sessionize
      • https://sessionize.com/selena-small/
      • https://sessionize.com/michael-milewski/
    • and papercall process
      • https://www.papercall.io/submissions
    • take a look at https://rubyconferences.org/
  • criteria
    • get accepted, does it pay, go ✅
  • drivers
    1. swag,
    2. acceptance via CFP,
    3. credibility from talking
    4. reduce decissions around where to travel
    5. party 🎉
       • https://failure-driven.com/post/2022-12-15-ruby-conf-thailand-conference-notes/
  • underlying drivers
    1. actually completing things
    2. so what is new in the community
    3. be a better programmer - more completion, more experience, wider network
    4. equity
• list the Selena and Michael will code for swag tour 2023
  1. RubyConfTH Bangkok 2022
  2. RubyConfAU Melbourne 2023
  3. Programmable Melbourne/Sydney 2023
  4. TestBash Spring London | Remote 2023
  5. ReactMiami 2023
  6. RailsConf Atlanta 2023
  7. RubyKaigi Matsumoto 2023
  8. ReactSummit Amsterdam | Remote 2023
  9. NDC Copenhagen 2023
• big win being quoted by others
  • 
  • 
  • via https://twitter.com/saramic/status/1661189417736740868
• had to even say NO - CPP North, RustConf Albuquerque and a few others

Recurring themes

• Speed of SQL
• WebAuthn and PassKeys
• Rails modularisation
• AI Pair programming
• All things cloud

Code Samples

• ✅ demo/fast_sql
• demo/open_telemetry
• demo/capybara_scrape
• demo/race_condition
• ✅ demo/special_characters
• ✅ demo/pass_key
• ✅ demo/picoruby_keyboard

Must Watch List

list of must watch

RubyConfTH Bangkok

Nate Berkopec @nateberkopec

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Jeremy Evans @jeremyevans0

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Ratnadeep Deshmane @rtdp

Content is super valuable here for people who want to understand better how rails works by understanding it's parts, in particular:

• rake
• rack
• ActiveSupport
• hash_with_indifferent_access gotchas
• ActiveRecord
• ActiveModel
• ActiveMailer - running as standalone mailer
• ActiveJob
• templates: ERB
• Parts that are too intertwind to run individually (learn them in rails):
  • ActionCable,
  • ActionVeiew,
  • ActionController
• DSLs in rails/ruby - RSpec, Routes
• look at route alternatives: sinatra/hanami/Roda

RubyConfAU Melbourne

Programmable

ReactMiami

RailsConf Atlanta

Watch for the following appearing https://www.youtube.com/@RubyCentral/videos

• Taylor’s Guide to Big Rewrites

  • Andy Croll
  • https://railsconf2023.sessionize.com/session/445621

• How to Have The Slowest Rails App Ever

  • Nate Berkopec
  • https://railsconf2023.sessionize.com/session/451197

• Mentorship in Three Acts

  • Adam Cuppy
  • https://railsconf2023.sessionize.com/session/452856

• Rails as a piece of birthday cake

  • Vladimir Dementyev
  • https://railsconf2023.sessionize.com/session/452834

• Off to the races

  • Kyle d'Oliveira
  • https://railsconf2023.sessionize.com/session/451054

• Keynote - Aaron Patterson

  • Aaron Patterson
  • https://railsconf2023.sessionize.com/session/471439

• Catch Me If You Can: Learning to Process Webhooks in Your Rails App

  • Colin Loretz & Chris Oliver
  • https://railsconf2023.sessionize.com/session/453439
    • code https://github.com/colinloretz/railsconf-webhooks
    • tutorial https://gorails.com/episodes/how-to-process-inbound-webhooks-railsconf-2023

RubyKaigi

probably watch for them being uploaded here - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBSg5zH-VFJ42BGQFk4VH2A

• Build a mini Ruby debugger in under 300 lines (EN)

  • Stan Lo @_st0012
  • https://rubykaigi.org/2023/presentations/_st0012.html#day2

• Multiverse Ruby (JA)

  • Chris Salzberg @shioyama
  • https://rubykaigi.org/2023/presentations/shioyama.html#day2

• The Second Oldest Bug (EN)

  • Jeremy Evans @jeremyevans0
  • https://rubykaigi.org/2023/presentations/jeremyevans0.html#day2

• Unleashing the Power of Asynchronous HTTP with Ruby (EN)

  • Samuel Williams @ioquatix
  • https://rubykaigi.org/2023/presentations/ioquatix.html#day3

Thank You