Who takes out your trash? Rain Leander, Technical Program Manager for OpenStack at Red Hat, and Sanne Kalkman, software engineer, on Red Hat Linux and Ruby, and garbage collection respectively
First explorations of GitHub's Actions We set out to automate the workflow of releasing a Ruby gem, based off of the GitHub Action for npm, upon getting access to this brand new feature
Year in review 2018 was a dynamic year, and we wouldn't want it any other way! Happy holidays, and looking forward to serve you (pun intended) in 2019
All things Rack, in Amsterdam On serving more than 10k connections from a single Ruby process, and smuggling TCP traffic through an HTTP connection, at the Amsterdam Ruby meetup
Passenger 5.3.7: fixes Ubuntu 18.04 packages The Passenger 5.3.7 release fixes the Ubuntu 18.04 nginx-common package, fixes compatibility with libcurl 7.62.0, and removes packages for Ubuntu 17.10 Artful
Passenger 5.3.6: fixes smart spawning Passenger 5.3.6 has been released. Most notably is the smart spawning fix, but it also includes fixes for frustrating warnings on macOS >= High Sierra, and gemset detection on RVM 1.29
We just launched the new Passenger Docs Passenger Docs just launched. We've updated, rerouted and regrouped our developer documentation for better discoverability and better flow.
Parallel testing in Rails, and fighting the monolith Eileen M. Uchitelle, Senior Systems Engineer at GitHub and Rails core team member, spilled the beans on the future of Rails, at the Amsterdam Ruby meetup.
What's in an app server Today Passenger supports more than 650.000 websites world-wide, but what even does it do?
Microservices vs spaghetti code are not your only options Hosting a Kubernetes meetup, we got to challenge Passenger's architecture choices past and present.
Hacktoberfest: celebrating Open Source in October October 2nd Phusion co-hosted the Amsterdam kick-off event for Hacktoberfest. We look forward to a month dedicated to open source software.
Fiddling with files & bots WeTransfer's Julik Tarkhanov and GitHub Developer Advocate Don Goodman Wilson on file formatting and automating issue triaging at the Amsterdam Ruby meetup.
Building a GitHub App with Glitch, Probot & Recast.AI Yesterday I attended a Craftwork Amsterdam workshop with the promise to ‘create a GitHub App’. With the help of ‘Hubbers’ Don, Bas and Anisha we built a bot that triages GitHub issues. The assignment is to flag GH issues
You can’t learn in a vacuum: lessons from 6 open source software maintainers Lessons learned from the maintainers of 6 major Ruby projects on maintaining and contributing to open source software.
How to get familiar with a new Open Source project A variation on this list will provide a good recipe for getting into any open source project and community you're new to.
Amsterdam JSNation takes us to JavaScript church and we are believers We attended JavaScript conference Amsterdam JSNation 2018, here's a summary of our favorite talks and workshops.
How this Amsterdam conference generated 35+ pull requests to vital Ruby OSS infrastructure in one day Open source projects that are part of the average Rubyist's toolbelt - like Homebrew and RVM - received an overwhelming amount of Pull Requests from new contributors at ROSS conf Amsterdam.
