Listen "Ruby Infrastructure with Ufuk Kayserilioglu"
Episode Synopsis
[00:08:50] Ufuk tells us how he got into programming and Ruby, and how he applied to a job that was put out by Rafael França. [00:12:21] We learn about how large the team was when Ufuk became manager, the growth of the, and if he had to learn a lot of management stuff.[00:14:48] Ufuk gives is an overview of what his Ruby Infrastructure team encompasses.[00:20:07] Does Shopify have any production services running TruffleRuby?[00:22:21] If TuffleRuby becomes the Ruby implementation at Shopify, Jason wonders if Ufuk is still able to use the tooling he’s built for developer experience and apply it to TruffleRuby?[00:25:12] Earlier Ufuk talked about organizing things as project teams instead of long-term teams and he tells us the benefits to that.[00:27:37] Jason wonders what Ufuk’s team decides to work on and where project ideas come from. Ufuk explains how they do road mapping and prioritization with the teams.[00:31:06] Ufuk goes in depth about always having a product mindset and how he applies those principles into developing products with the teams he works with. [00:35:40] We learn some ways Ufuk and his team adopt the Lean methodology in the way they’re developing a product which works very well for them. [00:40:55] Jason tells us something he was blown away by that has to do with YJIT, Ufuk explains how they built a lot of benchmarks, and there’s a YJIT Benchmark dashboard that you can check out. Also, find out where you can follow Ufuk on the web.Panelists:Jason CharnesChris OliverGuest:Ufuk KayseriliogluSponsor:HoneybadgerLinks:Jason Charnes TwitterChris Oliver TwitterUfuk Kayserilioglu TwitterUfuk Kayserilioglu websiteRafael França TweetShopifyYJIT BenchmarksTruffleRubyJason Charnes TweetRuby Radar NewsletterRuby Radar Twitter Chris Oliver X/Twitter Andrew Mason X/Twitter Jason Charnes X/Twitter
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