ezmobius · April 27, 2010 17:59 · eyberg · Apr 28, 2010
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 Hacking Ruby, Hacking the Cloud, Hacking Open Source Communities and Hacking Entrepreneurship, by Ezra Zygmuntowicz

 	We are at the intersection of a major change in the way people use computers. Just as the personal PC caused a revolution, the move to the cloud is causing another revolution. But this cloud revolution comes with many new challenges and  technologies that are very interesting and can do very powerful things.

 	In this talk I will cover the tools of the trade including but not limited to Redis, EventMachine, AMQP, Virtualization, Chef and the pros and cons of the various clouds available today and the state of  cloud api tools, configuration management as well as IaaS and Paas and what the difference between the two is. I've been working on a secret project involving many of these tools and I've built something special that no one has ever seen before. I'd like to unveil this during this talk.

 	Now tools are one thing and I will do a deep dive into the latest and greatest tools and open source projects. But I also want to talk about the startup scene, I am in a unique  position to have started a company back in 2006 that hit the sweet spot of two converging technologies, Ruby on Rails and Cloud computing. I've been through the venture capital experience taking 3 rounds of funding and $38 million dollars towards building a vision I have of the future of ruby and the cloud. I'd like to spend half of this talk speaking to my experiences of taking a company from 3 guys in our garages to 100 employees in 16 countries around the world and all the trials and tribulations that happened along the way.

 	Not many founders of companies this size stay in an engineering role. But I have always stayed true to my roots as a ruby hacker and even though I've been offered more money and bigger titles to become more of a manager, I have always turned them down because I want to stay in the nitty gritty of writing code and keeping this whole platform of technologies tied together in the right direction. I think I have some unique advice for aspiring entrepreneurs and I would like to share that with the good folks at Railsconf this year.

 	This talk is *not* a commercial for Engine Yard. Most folks attending already know what Engine Yard is so I do not feel compelled to advertise my company. I just want to tell a tale of 4 years of hacking both ruby   and the ruby ecosystem with my attempts to get  Rubinius sponsored, save the Jruby guys from Sun/Oracle and make merb to show that rails could be better and work with the rails core team to merge my merb work into the real Rails in order to better the ecosystem as a whole.

 	I am not just a ruby hacker. I am a hacker of communities, companies, open source projects and peoples feelings about our whole Ruby ecosystem. I'd like to share my experiences with  the esteemed folks at Railsconf this year.
	Hacking Ruby, Hacking the Cloud, Hacking Open Source Communities and Hacking Entrepreneurship, by Ezra Zygmuntowicz

	We are at the intersection of a major change in the way people use computers. Just as the personal PC caused a revolution, the move to the cloud is causing another revolution. But this cloud revolution comes with many new challenges and technologies that are very interesting and can do very powerful things.

	In this talk I will cover the tools of the trade including but not limited to Redis, EventMachine, AMQP, Virtualization, Chef and the pros and cons of the various clouds available today and the state of cloud api tools, configuration management as well as IaaS and Paas and what the difference between the two is. I've been working on a secret project involving many of these tools and I've built something special that no one has ever seen before. I'd like to unveil this during this talk.

	Now tools are one thing and I will do a deep dive into the latest and greatest tools and open source projects. But I also want to talk about the startup scene, I am in a unique position to have started a company back in 2006 that hit the sweet spot of two converging technologies, Ruby on Rails and Cloud computing. I've been through the venture capital experience taking 3 rounds of funding and $38 million dollars towards building a vision I have of the future of ruby and the cloud. I'd like to spend half of this talk speaking to my experiences of taking a company from 3 guys in our garages to 100 employees in 16 countries around the world and all the trials and tribulations that happened along the way.

	Not many founders of companies this size stay in an engineering role. But I have always stayed true to my roots as a ruby hacker and even though I've been offered more money and bigger titles to become more of a manager, I have always turned them down because I want to stay in the nitty gritty of writing code and keeping this whole platform of technologies tied together in the right direction. I think I have some unique advice for aspiring entrepreneurs and I would like to share that with the good folks at Railsconf this year.

	This talk is not a commercial for Engine Yard. Most folks attending already know what Engine Yard is so I do not feel compelled to advertise my company. I just want to tell a tale of 4 years of hacking both ruby and the ruby ecosystem with my attempts to get Rubinius sponsored, save the Jruby guys from Sun/Oracle and make merb to show that rails could be better and work with the rails core team to merge my merb work into the real Rails in order to better the ecosystem as a whole.

	I am not just a ruby hacker. I am a hacker of communities, companies, open source projects and peoples feelings about our whole Ruby ecosystem. I'd like to share my experiences with the esteemed folks at Railsconf this year.