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What Software Engineers Can Learn From the Chernobyl DisasterRubyConf TH 20262026-01-31
Shows how an RBMK reactor’s positive scram and lack of a containment building turn routine procedures into catastrophe: inserting control rods with graphite…
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End to end typing for web applicationsrubyday 20232023-06-16
Claim: keep one source of truth for data shapes by writing JSON Schema to TypeScript and generating types used by both Ruby produces and the frontend. Tools…
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How to A/B test with confidenceRailsConf 20212021-04-12
Recap of concrete rules and gotchas: compute sample size and power (if calculator says a million but there are only a thousand users the test is infeasible)…
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How to A/B test with confidenceRubyConfBY 2020 Online2020-07-18
Covers how to run valid A/B tests: use a proper randomizer (not user-id parity assignment), compute sample size from test power and choose the right…
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Fixing Performance & Memory problemsRubyConf 20192019-11-18
Shows concrete fixes: use Ruby-Prof to find an N^2 hotspot in scale_factor that calls abs a quarter‑million times and get several hundredfold speedup; use…
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