S01E46: Christopher Bertels

0:30 Introduction: Chris and Fancy 1:27 When to use Fancy 2:40 Fancy and Ruby similarities and differences 3:50 Chris’ favorite thing about Fancy 5:20 Why Fancy is built on top of the Rubinius VM 7:44 Other language implementors building on top of the Rubinius VM 8:31 Contributing to Fancy 9:35 The contribution model for Fancy; areas where contribution is welcomed 10:50 Getting started with Fancy 11:46 Chris’ interest in distributed computing 13:00 Working at Twitter: what Chris does, the technologies uses at Twitter 14:36 Batman or Spiderman? 14:55 If you were guaranteed not to fail… Links Christopher Bertels on github on Twitter Fancy Fancy website Fancy on github Alex Suraci on github Atomy project on github Clojure Cascalog Distributed computing Python Rubinius Rubinius Hack Day Storm – distributed and fault tolerant realtime computation Twitter Analytics