My name is Vladimir (orВова/ˈvo.və/, or ヴォーヴァ), and I'm a principal backend engineer at@evilmartians.

📕 My book "Layered design for Ruby on Rails applications" is avalable now:Amazon |Packt

I'm working on:

• Making real-time apps rock with@anycable (built with Ruby and Go).
• Bringing edge Ruby features to all Rubies with@ruby-next—a transpiler for Ruby.
• Helping Ruby devs to write faster tests withtest-prof.
• Expanding the boundaries of Ruby on Rails by pushing it closer to the browser viaRails on Wasm.
• ...and other projects, such as:Action Policy,Logidze,Anyway Config and many more.

Check out some of my blog posts:

• The future of full-stack Rails
• Real-time stress: AnyCable, k6, WebSockets, and Yabeda
• Ruby on Whales: Dockerizing Ruby and Rails development
• System of a test: Proper browser testing in Ruby on Rails
• Anyway Config: Keep your Ruby configuration sane
• RuboCoping with legacy: Bring your Ruby code up to Standard

...and conference talks:

• Ruby Mixology 101: adding shots of PHP, Elixir, and more (RubyKaigi 2024)
• Rails on Wasm (SF Ruby 2024)
• Profiling tests with Swiss precision (Helvetic Ruby 2023)
• Rails as a piece of birthday cake (RailsConf 2023)
• The pitfalls of real-time-ification (RailsConf 2022)
• Weaving and seaming mocks (RubyConf 2022)
• Frontendless Rails Frontend (RailsConf 2021)
• Between monoliths and microservices (RailsConf 2020, component-based architecture using Rails Engines)
• Ruby Next: Make old Rubies quack like a new one (RubyConf 2019)
• Terraforming legacy Rails applications (RailsConf 2019)
• High-speed cables for Ruby (RubyConf 2018)

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