S01E48: Xavier Shay

0:00 About about Xavier Shay 0:38 Xavier’s introduction to open source 1:19 What is DataMapper? What are the goals of DataMapper? 2:52 Xavier’s work on the analytics team at Square 3:55 Technologies Square uses: Ruby, JVM, Cube, D3 4:50 Impressions of and use for various JVMs: Rubinius, MRI, JRuby 6:10 Xavier’s interest in speeding up Rails startup time 8:20 Protecting yourself from data integrity problems and the importance of using foreign keys 12:35 Considering tradeoffs of various databases 14:41 Xavier’s favorite talks from RubyConf 2011 Links About Xavier Shay Twitter: Github: DataMapper Square Cube d3.js Rubinius MRI JRuby Xavier Shay’s Blog Post “Speeding up Rails Startup Time” Xavier’s Workshop “Database is your friend” RubyConf 2011 1. Greg Moeck’s “Why You Don’t Get Mock Objects” presentation 2. Brian Ford’s presentation on improving tooling for Ruby “Nikita: The Ruby Secret Agent” 3. Dr. Nic’s “Threading versus Evented”