In this episode of Remote Ruby, Andrew and Chris chat with guest, Marco Roth, to discuss the challenges of working with ERB templates in Ruby on Rails, and Marco's ongoing project, Herb. They dive int...

As I mentioned at the start of my Optimizing Ruby’s JSON series of posts, performance isn’t why I candidated to be the new gem’s maintainer.

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DuckLake simplifies lakehouses by using a standard SQL database for all metadata, instead of complex file-based systems, while still storing data in open formats like Parquet. This makes it more relia...

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A bit more than two years ago, as part of my work in Shopify’s Ruby and Rails Infrastructure team, I released a new Ruby HTTP server called Pitchfork.

I want to write a post about Pitchfork, explaining where it comes from, why it is like it is, and how I see its future. But before I can get to that, I think I need to share my mental model on a few t...

Can we have a faster FFI for CRuby? Yes.

What's Changed Expose record on the Associated Object class level. by @kaspth in #34 BREAKING: Replace record_klass with record & remove record_klass by @kaspth in #35 Integrate with Active Model ...

Rails is your app's biggest dependency and you probably don't know what's going on in there. tl;dr: I'm a former Rails core member guiding you through complex…

In the previous post, we started covering some parser optimizations. There’s just a handful more to cover until we reached what’s the state of the currently released version of ruby/json.

In the previous post, we showed how we eliminated two malloc/free pairs of calls when generating small JSON documents, and how that put us ahead of Oj when reusing the JSON::State object.

IRB Documentation: Overview \IRB stands for "Interactive Ruby" and is a tool to interactively execute Ruby expressions read from the standard input. The `irb` command f

This article is Japanese->English translation of プロと読み解くRuby 3.4 NEWS - STORES Product Blog,...

In the previous post, I covered how I reimplemented JSON::Generator::State#configure in Ruby and some other changes. Unfortunately, it didn’t go as well as I initially thought.

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Recently we learned that Google spent $2.7 billion to re-hire a single AI researcher who had left to start his own company. As Charlie Brown would say: “Good grief.” 🙄 This is an (incredibly!) extr…

This is the most significant release in a while. The timer thread should be lighter weight (hopefully without sacrificing too much accuracy), we now record fiber activity, and memory is measured ov...

In the previous post, I covered my motivations for improving ruby/json’s performance, and detailed the first 4 notable optimizations applied to speed up JSON generation.

I was recently made maintainer of the json gem, and aside from fixing some old bugs, I focused quite a bit on its performance, so that it is now the fastest JSON parser and generator for Ruby on most ...

There is a recent language comparison repo which has been getting shared a lot. In it, CRuby was the third slowest option, only beating out R and Python. The repo author, @BenjDicken, created a fun vi...

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