02:28 - Ruby in a Polyglot Architecture (Panel Experience)

04:21 - Does Ruby do well or not in the microservices area? Is Ruby keeping up?

07:30 - What are areas where Ruby still beats other languages?


Speed and Momentum
Dependency Management

CPAN
Bundler
npm




13:12 - Polyglotting Architecture if Only Using Ruby for Build Tools, Deployment Tools, etc.?


“Deployment is part of the code.”


Capistrano
rake




16:09 - Error Messages

18:20 - Tradeoffs in a Polyglot Architecture (Negatives)


Context Switching


AWK
DSLs




34:35 - Learning Programming


Ruby as a First Language?
What is a good language for beginners?

Smalltalk
Scheme
Python




41:24 - Mixing Languages