week_15_2020.md

• Github's Process for upgrading to Ruby 2.7
  • Breezy writeup of how Github handled upgrading to Ruby 2.7
  • A couple benefits they noted to upgrading: 20 sec drop in application bootup time and going from "~780k allocations to ~668k allocations"
  • https://github.blog/2020-08-25-upgrading-github-to-ruby-2-7/
• Ruby 3 Updates to Positional and Keyword arguments
  • Had to fully read through it to get a sense of things, but by the end I had a good sense of the significance of the change
  • Also helped me understand positional vs keyword arguments and some implicit behaviors Ruby has. Ruby 2.7 will also point out the changes coming in Ruby 3
  • https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2019/12/12/separation-of-positional-and-keyword-arguments-in-ruby-3-0/
• Garbage Collection in Ruby
  • One person's notes on GC in Ruby. If I knew more about C and memory management, I think I would've gotten more out of this post, but I still picked up a few meaningful things such as the fact that Ruby's GC is what is known as "stop-the-world" garbage collection (code cannot run while GC is happening), and I think, if I'm recalling the article correctly, this is due to Ruby's single-threaded nature(?). Also fun to read how Ruby Objects are stored as structs within C and also Ruby's Garbage Collector does more than garbage collecting!
  • https://blog.peterzhu.ca/notes-on-ruby-gc/
• Ruby 2.7 - Beginless Range
  • https://blog.bigbinary.com/2020/08/25/ruby-2-7-adds-beginless-range.html
• Resource of Resources: Architecting
  • Collection of lots of diagramming tools and writeups of philosophies/principles for how to build successful systems
  • https://nocomplexity.com/documents/arplaybook/architecture-references.html
• An Attempt to Explain The Internet from the Ground Up
  • https://explained-from-first-principles.com/internet/
• Dokku - PaaS Tool
  • An attempt at a lightWeight deployment tool for containerized apps
  • http://dokku.viewdocs.io/dokku/
• ⭐ Resource of Resources: Testing Strategies employed by many well-known software companies ⭐
  • https://github.com/abhivaikar/howtheytest
• Data Engineer Roadmap
  • https://github.com/datastacktv/data-engineer-roadmap
• Random Ruby Gem for colorized terminal text
  • https://github.com/sickill/rainbow