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Panel



Andrew Mason


Eric Berry


Dave Kimura



Joined by Special Guest: Sean Handley

Summary

Sean Handley explains in detail ruby bindings and FFI and why they might be useful. The panel discusses the advantages of using a ruby binding, such as speed and opening up access to other projects. Sean Handley and Dave Kimura give advice on organizing code, to make it easier to use the FFI library. Sean Handley talks about his experience using FFI and native extension. The discussion switches gears and talks about Sean Handley’s blog post about hexagons and 3D space. The panel discusses how this math is used in services like Uber. Sean Handley brings up that hexagons are seen in nature and shares the beehive example. The discussion ends with Sean Handley answering a few more questions about FFI and Fiddle.

Links



https://github.com/uber/h3


https://nokogiri.org/


Behind the Curve


https://github.com/seanhandley


https://twitter.com/code_sean


https://medium.com/@sean.handley


https://medium.com/stuart-engineering


https://www.facebook.com/RubyRogues


https://twitter.com/rubyrogues



Picks

Andrew Mason



http://strftimer.com/



Sean Handley



https://vasyop.github.io/miniC-hosting/



Dave Kimura



https://www.foragoodstrftime.com/


https://microk8s.io/


Special Guest: Sean Handley.