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- Last Updated: March 07, 2013
- Craig Kerstiens
Matz, the creator of Ruby, spoke at Waza for the 20th anniversary of the language and the release of Ruby 2.0. If you weren't in the sold out crowd, not to worry. Information should flow free and experiences should be shared; in line with those concepts you can watch Matz's talk right here, then read about what's new in this version of Ruby and how to run it on Heroku. With slides available on speakerdeck Keep reading for more information on Ruby 2.0 or check out our first batch of videos from Waza 2013. To stay up to date as…
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- Last Updated: February 28, 2013
- Craig Kerstiens
Great coders know their technology intimately. And they know how to choose it. Truly awesome application developers know more. They know the human side of technology. They know technique. They focus on their method—their practice. In 2000 Heroku co-founder and CTO Adam Wiggins saw this more clearly than ever before. He read The Pragmatic Programmer by Andy Hunt and Dave Thomas. The book, as Adam explains in this thought-provoking (and method-shifting) Waza talk, showed him that his work could not only be about technology. It HAD to be about technique. Heroku Co-founder, CTO and general badass, Adam Wiggins Adam discusses…
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- Last Updated: February 27, 2013
- Richard Schneeman
With support for Node.js, Java, Scala and other multi-threaded languages, Heroku allows you to take full advantage of concurrent request processing and get more performance out of each dyno. Ruby should be no exception. If you are running Ruby on Rails with Thin, or another single-threaded server, you may be seeing bottlenecks in your application. These servers only process one request at a time and can cause unnecessary queuing. Instead, you can improve performance by choosing a concurrent server such as Unicorn which will make your app faster and make better use of your system resources. In this article we…
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- Last Updated: June 03, 2024
- Craig Kerstiens
In planning Waza 2013 we went back to reflect on last year’s speakers. And we want to make the talks readily available to anybody who could not make it last year—or who wants a refresher. Check back soon for more talks from Waza 2012. And we hope to see you in person at Waza 2013 coming up FAST on Feb. 28 in San Francisco. In a world of evolving languages, frameworks and development patterns, we developers must continually improve our craft. Innovative developers already have jumped on board many of these shifts. We’ve seen this with the adoption of more…
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- Last Updated: April 24, 2024
- Jesper Joergensen
Today our partner, New Relic, released an update to the Ruby New Relic agent that addresses issues brought up by our customers. The new version corrects how New Relic reports performance metrics for applications running on Heroku. Queueing time is now reported as the total time from when a request enters the router until the application starts processing it. Previous versions of New Relic only reported queueing time in the router. The new approach will result in more accurate queueing metrics that allow you to better understand and tune the performance of your application. Update, Feb 22: New Relic has…
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- Last Updated: March 26, 2024
- Sara Dornsife
Waza (技) 2013 is only a week away and the schedule is packed with amazing speakers and hands-on craft experiences. We can’t wait to share this day with all of you. If you haven’t yet, register now before it’s too late! This year, Waza will have three stages with a total of 20 talks. The rest of the venue is packed with lounges, co-working spaces, snack and beverage stations, and, thanks to our sponsors, all kinds of interactive, craft-based activities to fuel your creative mind. Hands-on Crafts In addition to our great sponsored happenings, we have quilting, dye-making and printmaking…
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