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Dec 2: Debugging Ruby: Understanding and Troubleshooting the VM and Your Application

Wednesday, December 2, 2009 from 6:30 PM to 9:00 PM (ET)

Reston, VA

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Type End     Quantity
General Admission Ended Free  

Event Details

Pizza and sodas (free) start at 6:30, meeting starts at 7 PM

Title: Debugging Ruby: Understanding and Troubleshooting the VM and Your Application by Aman Gupta

A new presentation consisting of content from Aman's threading talk, which he has presented at various Ruby conferences, and add some newer stuff about ruby-level debugging.

Bio: Aman Gupta is a serial entrepreneur, ruby hacker and a recent winner of a Ruby Heroes award. He currently maintains the EventMachine project and various other gems that help build high-performance distributed and asynchronous systems in ruby, including em-mysql, em-spec, jsSocket and amqp.

Most recently, Aman has been hacking on performance improvements to MRI, releasing several patches to ruby and perftools.rb, a sampling profiler for ruby code based on google-perftools.