Ruby is Unlike a Banana

My EuRuKo 2012 talk about how we use Ruby and Unix systems at GitHub.

If you didn't hear the talk, these slides probably won't make sense.
If you did see the talk, these slides probably won't make sense.

Transcript

6. “I don’t believe in vegetables.
8. github . com github : fi github It went something like this.
9. “We don’t believe in the JVM.
12. (also, I shaved)
13. You need to know C to truly understand UNIX
14. You need to know C to truly understand UNIX
15. You need to know UNIX to truly understand Ruby
17. Unix Simple tools that do one thing and work well together.
18. Ruby: so UNIX, it hurts
19. look at those `backticks` …come on
26. 40 YEARS
28. I’m not even mad. Really.
30. Close your eyes and picture an Erlang VM with embedded mRuby where each actor is running an independent interpreter with no shared state.