Ouch! What I Learned From Being Hit by a Serverless, Ruby Boomerang!
Have you ever done something that's come back and bitten you? I have (frequently). Asking an open source project to put more effort into supporting your favourite language (Ruby in my case) is asking …
| Talk Title | Ouch! What I Learned From Being Hit by a Serverless, Ruby Boomerang! |
| Speakers | Ewan Slater (Cloud Architect, Oracle) |
| Conference | KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe |
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| Location | Barcelona, Spain |
| Date | May 19-23, 2019 |
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Have you ever done something that’s come back and bitten you? I have (frequently). Asking an open source project to put more effort into supporting your favourite language (Ruby in my case) is asking to be hit by your own boomerang - “that’s a great idea, why don’t you get started?” In this talk I’ll describe how I got hit by my own Ruby boomerang and wound up maintaining the Ruby FDK for the Fn project (not my day job). I’ll cover: - why I believe we need open source serverless - the Fn project - the Ruby FDK (Function Development Kit) - my experience of contributing to open source - why I still want to be involved - how I’ve encouraged others to start - why you might want to get involved
