Full Circle: How Modern Ruby Powers the Re-integration of High-Speed Microservices into Rails
Cristian Planas • São Paulo, Brazil • Talk

Date: April 04, 2025
Published: not published
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Software engineer who has been primarily working with Ruby for over 15 years.
Founder of a startup as a solo engineer in 2012, later he joined the Zendesk headquarters in San Francisco, one of the leading companies using Ruby in the world. Performance optimization has been his obsession since the founding of his first startup. He currently holds the position of Group Tech Lead and Senior Staff Engineer.

In his talk, "How Modern Ruby Powers High-Speed Microservices Reintegration in Rails", he will guide us through the fascinating journey of the Zendesk Indexer—which was extracted from a Rails monolith to become a high-speed microservice and is now returning. Discover how Kubernetes and event-driven architecture are rewriting the rules of scalability, proving that sometimes the future is in the past.

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