Panel:


David Richards
Dave Kimura
Eric Berry
Catherine Meyers


Special Guests: Eliav Lavi

In this episode of Ruby Rogues, the panel talks to Eliav Lavi about his article How I Built Timeasure. Eliav works for Riskified where he is a back-end developer working with Ruby mostly and recently some Scala. In the past, he studied music but  had always been into technology from a young age. They talk about how got to where he is today, what the developer scene is like in Israel, and Timeasure. They talk about what this gem is, why they decided to create it, and more!

In particular, we dive pretty deep on:


Eliav intro
Studied music originally
Risk analyst at Riskified
Company started on Ruby on Rails
Been a professional developer for the last year and a half
Self-taught programmer
Used blogs and books to learn
How welcoming and helpful the Ruby community is
What’s the developer scene like in Israel?
Rails and JavaScript jobs common in Israel
English as the common denominator for code
What is Timeasure?
Needed a way to measure the run-time of code
Safe to use in production
Easy DSL
Did you look at other gems first before creating this?
Used NewRelic originally
How is the data stored?
What to do with all the collected measurements?
NewRelic Insights
Ruby Prof
And much, much more!


Links:


How I Built Timeasure
Riskified
Ruby
Scala
Ruby on Rails
Timeasure
NewRelic
NewRelic Insights
Ruby Prof
Eliav’s Medium
Eliav’s GitHub
@eliavlavi
Riskified’s GitHub


Sponsors


Sentry
Digital Ocean
FreshBooks


Picks:

David


Make Your Life a Story Worth Reading by Jake Wilder


Dave


Sun Catchers


Eric


Golf


Catherine


Women in Tech: Take Your Career to the Next Level by Tarah Wheeler


Eliav


Andy Warhol Museum

Special Guest: Eliav Lavi.