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RBQ Conf. Bringing Rubyists together to celebrate our favorite language and enjoy some Austin BBQ
Observability. SRE. SLOs. Traces. Metrics. Logs. You've probably heard the terms—but what do they actually mean? Ariel Valentin cuts through the buzzwords and shares a practical introduction to observability for Ruby developers. Watch now: www.youtube.com/watch?v=KErL...
RBQ 2026 - Practical Observability for Ruby
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LLM features shouldn't be treated like a black box bolted onto your Rails app. In his RBQ Conf talk, David Paluy explores practical patterns for instrumenting LLM calls so you can measure cost, latency, failures, and more in production. Watch now: www.youtube.com/watch?v=rQ4e...
RBQ 2026 - LLM Telemetry as a First-Class Rails Concern
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“Rails magic” is really just code waiting to be understood. In her RBQ Conf talk, Meghan Gutshall explores ActiveRecord Enums, when to use them, the features they provide, and how to trace their behavior through the Rails codebase. Watch now: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xn1k...
RBQ 2026 - Revealing Rails Magic with Enums
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As more tools abstract away our workflows, understanding Git is becoming more important, not less. PJ Hagerty explores why Git still matters and how a better understanding of version control can strengthen your development workflow. Watch now: www.youtube.com/watch?v=1G0a...
Everything worked perfectly... until two requests arrived at the same time. In his RBQ Conf talk, Yarik explores the concurrency problems Rails apps quietly ignore and shares practical patterns for handling concurrent access safely. Watch now: www.youtube.com/watch?v=q5fa...
How does someone use their own domain as their Fediverse identity? In his RBQ Conf talk, Tom Brown shares what he learned from two years of building a Ruby Fediverse application and explains how WebFinger Reverse Discovery makes it possible. Watch now: www.youtube.com/watch?v=0mKH...
Postgres partitioning can feel confusing, risky, or reserved for massive enterprise apps. Alex Yarotsky shows how Rails developers can approach partitioning with practical, real-world techniques you can apply with confidence. Watch now: www.youtube.com/watch?v=-dZZ...
Regex can feel like magic. But what actually happens when Ruby sees something like `/abc/`? In his RBQ Conf talk, Daniel follows a regular expression through Ruby's internals — from parsing to bytecode to execution. Watch now: www.youtube.com/watch?v=zkb_...
Your background job ran for hours, processed millions of records... then disappeared during a deploy. Retries won't save you from a job that never failed. In his RBQ Conf talk, Bart explores resilient background jobs in Ruby. www.youtube.com/watch?v=wtrm...
Missed RBQ Conf? Or want to revisit a favorite talk? Starting this week, we'll be releasing about two talks each week from the inaugural RBQ Conf. Watch every release at rbqconf.com.
I cannot emphasize enough how kind, caring, and vibrant the #Ruby community STILL is! Thanks for an awesome time @rbqconf.bsky.social
The villains of scaling Rails have no chance. Batman, I mean Cristian, gives a wonderful talk on how to use your scaling toolbelt to “Kapow” those villains. #RBQConf
JRuby is the “alt” ruby that has stood the test of time. Thanks Charles for a wonderful talk and the care you’ve taken over these many years maintaining JRuby #RBQConf
Chris built an AI feature into his companies app. He shares the steps he took to implement, orchestrate, track, and protect outcomes. #RBQConf
Bart shows us how to think through building resilient background jobs. Great talk with solid examples. #RBQConf
PJ reminds takes down memory lane, reminding us what life was like before git and why git is more important than ever. #RBQConf
Metaverse? no thanks! Fediverse is pretty cool. Thanks Tom for a wonderful talk to start the second day! #RBQConf
Yarik walks us through production race conditions that can happen even with Transactions in place. #RBQConf
Making the case for Open Telemetry and Observabilty in Ruby and Rails. Excellent talk from Austin’s own, Ariel Valentin. #RBQConf
David gives us something to think about w.r.t. AI and measuring its performance/outcomes like anything else in software development. #RBQConf
Games in Ruby? it’s totally doable with DragonRuby. Thanks Amir for a great talk and great framework. #RBQConf
Inspired by DragonRuby and a quick chat with @amirrajan.bsky.social at @rbqconf.bsky.social in Austin, I threw together a five-minute JRuby + Simple Directmedia Layer example using LWJGL! I'm actually shocked how easily this worked. JRuby is really amazing! 🤩
Szymon shows us how mutation testing and Mutant gem can help increase confidence in a code base we’re less and less confident in. #RBQConf
If you are in Austin for @rbqconf.bsky.social and you'd like to join us - we are having a Happy Hour tonight at Higbie's! Join us for cocktails, mocktails, and fun! luma.com/26dxy3co
RBQ Happy Hour with GitButler · Luma
Join us at Higbie's for the RBQ Happy Hour! GitButler is happy to host an evening of free cocktails, mocktails, and fun at one of Austin's premiere hang…
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