Irina Nazarova @inazarova Twitter profile

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Irina Nazarova

5 months

Check out the slides for my #RailsConf keynote: with stories from @irreverentmike (), @jacksharkey11 ( @WhopIO ) and, of course, @APIguy ( @flexcar ) and their success with Rails. During the talk, we were still waiting for Flexcar's

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Irina Nazarova

@inazarova

4 months

I saw a bunch of "Ruby/Hotwire is slow" and "Who is even using Ruby for new startups today" comments on this platform the other day, and I want to share my opinion–a personal one!

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Irina Nazarova

@inazarova

3 months

Nextjs: after we messed up the framework design, let’s try to save it with incantations 🪄. “Server-only” is a new one.

Lee Robinson

@leeerob

3 months

React Server Components allow you to call your database directly from a component. And that's great... but how do we make sure this code never ever runs on the client?

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Irina Nazarova

@inazarova

5 years

Приехала к маме, чтобы выполнить почетную обязанность дочери: настроить редирект с http на https на двух её сайтах 😅

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Irina Nazarova

@inazarova

4 months

In 2024 the fastest, most productive way to build a CRUD web application is Ruby on Rails. People choose it for pragmatic reasons. Examples: @GetLago (YC S21, $22 M funding), @UbicloudHQ (Ruby on Roda, YC W24, $16M funding), Craftwork (S23, $10M ), @rootlyhq (YC S21, $15M),

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Irina Nazarova

@inazarova

2 months

Ok, a thought: we need a better catalogue of companies building with Rails. The one that includes not a few cool examples, but, say 50-80% of all notable businesses. Why? — Hiring. To boost chances of efficient and successful hiring on both sides, @RubyOnRemote is doing a great

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Irina Nazarova

@inazarova

4 months

Let's talk more about React and Rails. Very often, Rails teams can comfortably use Hotwire until just one particular page calls for something like React. And many don't know that we can add React (or Vue, or Svelte) without the hassle of building an API–with @inertiajs .

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Irina Nazarova

@inazarova

7 months

Somebody tell me you see that too!!! #RailsConf

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Irina Nazarova

@inazarova

1 year

Thank you, Rails community, the most supportive community in the world ❤️‍🔥. That was my first RailsConf, and my head is still spinning and my heart is about to explode. #railsconf

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Irina Nazarova

@inazarova

7 months

More #Ruby and open source happy stories 🎊: @UbicloudHQ raised a $16 mn Seed to build an open source alternative to cloud platforms (like AWS). So that you can exit the cloud (like @dhh did) because you have cloud at home 😅 (but a good one!). And guess what, Ubicloud is a

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Irina Nazarova

@inazarova

1 year

Hey friends, we built this page to explain what we do at @evilmartians and how we help dev tools startups, with examples, cost, timelines, and more: Pls share to give us a little boost 💙

Evil Martians: Product Development Consulting for Dev Tools Startups

Evil Martians transform growth-stage startups into unicorns, build developer tools, and create open source products.

evilmartians.com

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Irina Nazarova

@inazarova

4 months

Rails is the core backend framework not only at Shopify and GitHub, but also Figma, Gusto, ConvertKit, Apple Music and so many applications that you use every day. YC's own software too.

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Irina Nazarova

@inazarova

1 year

This non-human is flying to SF✈️! Hoping to meet new people, make new friends, learn new things.

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Irina Nazarova

@inazarova

3 months

New startups choose Rails in 2024 because it helps them ship faster than anything else. If you are building a web application, and not considering Rails, you are missing out. Sharing the video, and context about this talk at RailsConf:

Startups on Rails in 2024: my keynote at RailsConf—Martian Chronicles, Evil Martians’ team blog

Are startups choosing Ruby and Rails in 2024? Yes, they are! Moreover, they're shipping products faster by switching to Rails from the hyped Next.js and the established Java. Hear these stories in...

evilmartians.com

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Irina Nazarova

@inazarova

5 months

Hiking in Romania! Absolutely amazing💙

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Irina Nazarova

@inazarova

22 days

That’s a pretty cool demo of Elixir Livebook from @josevalim at #EuRuKo

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Irina Nazarova

@inazarova

4 months

Extremely lucky to be visiting Switzerland again!! On a train from Pontresina to Chur.

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Irina Nazarova

@inazarova

3 months

Ok friends, I got some _really_ cool news: on August 13 @ycombinator will be hosting our SF Ruby meetup 🔥! With YC founders building with #Ruby speaking! Still working to get the registration link etc, but hey, save the date.

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Irina Nazarova

@inazarova

7 months

Hanging out at #SinCityRuby !

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Irina Nazarova

@inazarova

15 days

Because I don’t have a Schengen visa at the moment, instead of @friendlyrb I took a week off and decided to spend it with family near Tivat, Montenegro.

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Irina Nazarova

@inazarova

2 months

Our meetup!

Mike Coutermarsh

@mscccc

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YC having a Ruby meetup. And advertising it on the HN homepage. Ruby++

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Irina Nazarova

@inazarova

5 months

This was happening right there: the night after the RailsConf keynote where I spoke about them, team @flexcar successfully migrated 70 microservices and 30 databases to a Rails monolith. And the next day I see @APIguy on the beautiful terrace during the happy hour, surrounded by

Freedom Dumlao

@APIguy

5 months

Hey @railsconf friends! You might have heard at @inazarova ’s keynote about our plan to replace 70 Java Microservices with one monolithic Rails app at @flexcar . Many of you have reached out to see how it went and I’m very happy to report… we launched! AMA

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Irina Nazarova

@inazarova

6 months

— how are you adjusting in California? — I fit right in! proofs:

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Irina Nazarova

@inazarova

10 months

Just signed a 12-month lease in SF starting January 2024. Is this really happening? 😨

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Irina Nazarova

@inazarova

21 days

We got a photo too! @evilmartians with @yukihiro_matz 👽 at #EuRuKo

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Irina Nazarova

@inazarova

11 months

@simonsarris This interpretation is so twisted, that it says more about the author’s live view than the topic at hand. College costs are the same, but women miss about half a decade of career and wage growth in order to raise children, plus suffer the wage gap. Lower earnings, lower rate of

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Irina Nazarova

@inazarova

5 months

This is heaven! #RailsConf

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Irina Nazarova

@inazarova

6 months

@t3dotgg Theoretically it's just a migration to the new GA4, but it is a painful breaking upgrade and we won't have access to the old UA data after July 1 😭. They are making it really easy to switch away rn.

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Irina Nazarova

@inazarova

11 months

This happy kid landed in 🇨🇭for @helvetic_ruby ! On my way to Bern!

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Irina Nazarova

@inazarova

17 days

Who’s coming to #RailsWorld ? I need to know 🙏

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Irina Nazarova

@inazarova

2 months

“Through the acquisition of @heroku #Ruby on #Rails funded @YCombinator from 2010 for about five years” — @snowmaker at the Ruby at YC meetup right now 🔥

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Irina Nazarova

@inazarova

1 year

It’s absolutely magical in Amsterdam today! #RailsWorld

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Irina Nazarova

@inazarova

6 months

All this time I was thinking about all the ways things could go wrong at the meetup, but it went smoothly, thanks to the super professional @github 's onsite team. And thanks to our speakers @bensheldon @danfarina @marcoroth_ and @palkan_tula , the night was so insightful and

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Irina Nazarova

@inazarova

5 months

@joeldrapper is what we recommend for load testing because you can write realistic scenarios. Example of how we use it to load test WebSockets

Real-time stress: AnyCable, k6, WebSockets, and Yabeda—Martian Chronicles, Evil Martians’ team blog

Introducing a k6 plugin to load test WebSockets and instrumenting the application under test with Yabeda, Prometheus and Grafana

evilmartians.com

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Irina Nazarova

@inazarova

1 year

Finally, all set to fly the Atlantic for the #railsconf 🛸

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Irina Nazarova

@inazarova

5 months

Sqlite Jesus @fractaledmind taking the stage 👆

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Irina Nazarova

@inazarova

5 months

#BalkanRuby , let’s go! @strzibnyj @fractaledmind @gsamokovarov @adrianthedev

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Irina Nazarova

@inazarova

6 months

SF Bay Area Ruby meetup at @github HQ is live 💥

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Irina Nazarova

@inazarova

1 year

Azores islands are mind blowing 💙💚

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Irina Nazarova

@inazarova

5 months

Flustered! And... I met with 25 startup founders and CTOs in preparation for this, don’t miss it 😎

RailsConf

@railsconf

5 months

Meet keynote #speaker @inazarova , CEO, Evil Martians 👩🏻‍💻✨ She believes clients are friends, and we care about each other. Armed with wit, passion, and a sprinkle of mischief, she proudly steers Evil Martians toward extraordinary achievements! Learn more:

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Irina Nazarova

@inazarova

6 months

Another great day for the #Rails community: @GetLago , an open source alternative to Stripe, built on Ruby on Rails, raised a $22M Series A round 🥳. Congratulations! It is an inspiration for all Rubyists out there 😼 The team started in 2021. Peeking into the repo is super

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Irina Nazarova

@inazarova

1 year

Let's admit it: I am extremely EXTREMELY excited to be on that list together with the people I admire. To be at this conference. To be a part of this community. ❤️

Ruby on Rails

@rails

1 year

The #RailsWorld speaker lineup is live! Meet all of the speakers coming to Amsterdam this October to help shape the future of Rails:

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Irina Nazarova

@inazarova

5 months

OK let me say this: if you work with a Rails application, you want it to last and thrive, and you have not bought this book yet, you are missing out

Layered Design for Ruby on Rails Applications: Discover practical design patterns for maintainable...

Layered Design for Ruby on Rails Applications: Discover practical design patterns for maintainable web applications

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Irina Nazarova

@inazarova

1 year

Finally got to watch #RailsWorld videos, yay! Started with @jmcharnes ’s reflections💕 and @yarotheslav ’s cookbook and luckily I cooked something too ☕🍳

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Irina Nazarova

@inazarova

3 years

we flew from 4 countries to hang out at the end of the world 👽

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Irina Nazarova

@inazarova

9 days

Ok I’m “joining” #RailsWorld from this slow plane 🫣

Irina Nazarova

@inazarova

9 days

@yarotheslav @ahmednadar @adrianthedev @cirdesh @serradura @thijsc @fractaledmind @marcoroth_ FOMO is crazy and this plane could not be flying any slower!

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Irina Nazarova

@inazarova

1 year

Oh, and I got cool portraits from the @RailsSaaS team too 😁. Super happy to have one pro do my makeup and then another pro take the shots 😌

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Irina Nazarova

@inazarova

3 months

Hey! I'm not doing any travel/conferences till September, so my calendar is much more open. How about this: you can schedule a call with me on any tech, devtools, business related topic–if you think I can be useful with that =) Go ahead and pick a slot:

Meeting | Irina Nazarova | Cal.com

Meeting

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Irina Nazarova

@inazarova

9 days

Already met two Rubyists in Toronto ✅ — @jespr and @palkan_tula 🤩

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Irina Nazarova

@inazarova

5 months

Although I don’t wear this style daily, a mini gives me a ton of energy on stage. Some of it was also to match the Cinderella gifs in the talk 😁. It feels great somehow!

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Irina Nazarova

@inazarova

4 months

Rails does not necessarily mean Hotwire. Hotwire is great for its use case, and it can adopt the Optimistic pattern as well–there's a community effort there. But Rails is bigger than it's core, and it's always been.

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Irina Nazarova

@inazarova

3 months

First time at @ycombinator !

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Irina Nazarova

@inazarova

7 months

Ok @Waymo is amazing 😍

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Irina Nazarova

@inazarova

3 months

My #RailsConf Keynote rec is out! Yes, I look a bit funny on stage, and I still remember feeling something like an electrical circuit with everyone in the room⚡️. Share it with people who are hesitant about the future of #Ruby and #Rails

RailsConf 2024 - Keynote: Startups on Rails in 2024 by Irina Nazarova

Let’s hear from startups that chose Rails in recent years. Would you be surprised to hear that Rails is quietly recommended founder to founder in the corrido...

www.youtube.com

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Irina Nazarova

@inazarova

3 years

One year ago I became the CEO of the team of my dreams, Evil Martians. In 2017, after two crashed startups (and one marriage), I felt pretty worthless when I joined as an account manager. Gradually this team cured me and made me feel so strong — like never before ❤️. Love you

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Irina Nazarova

@inazarova

10 days

As I'm packing my bag for the #RailsWorld 2024 that starts with a Day 0 tomorrow, I couldn't be more excited! This sold-out (again!) conference, organized by the Rails Foundation, is bringing together Ruby people from around the globe. Why this year's event is so special:

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Irina Nazarova

@inazarova

8 months

Something very personal that I cannot stop thinking about. I am 36, never had a child. Should I undergo complex medical procedures involving hormone injections and operations to have a chance to give birth 5-6 years from now? I am not sure if I will have the right circumstances

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Irina Nazarova

@inazarova

4 months

We started 7 projects in May already, and I'm pumped! They are: – UI framework (going to be open-sourced!) for a tech giant – design sprint for an AI-native code editor – design sprint for an AI-native issue tracker – frontend for AI pair programming tool – frontend performance

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Irina Nazarova

@inazarova

6 months

Open source does not need donations. They are never enough, and ultimately they cannot make a difference. First and foremost, open source needs companies to be open in return: be open about the open source you are using, endorse the authors, get your logos on their repos or

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Irina Nazarova

@inazarova

1 year

Unpacking Action Cable by @palkan_tula #RailsWorld

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Irina Nazarova

@inazarova

11 months

Hanging out at #GitHubUniverse today and tomorrow, come say hi and get Evil Martians stickers if you’re around 🐙🐱

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Irina Nazarova

@inazarova

2 months

Got a rejection on my GitHub Universe CFP. The talk was very provocative "Donations don't work!" It didn't work! 😅

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Irina Nazarova

@inazarova

1 year

I’m in SF for the next 1-2 weeks, meeting with dev tools teams and investors. We’ve got a cool GPT-based docs product and more Evil Martians goodies 🌸. Happy to grab a coffee.

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Irina Nazarova

@inazarova

4 months

All set for tomorrow’s SF Bay Area Ruby meetup 😎

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Irina Nazarova

@inazarova

1 year

💖 I'm sponsoring @marcoroth_ because of his dedication to open source and Rails ecosystem.

Sponsor @marcoroth on GitHub Sponsors

Marco is a passionate Full-Stack Ruby on Rails developer and a dedicated open-source contributor. As a member of the StimulusReflex and Hotwire Contributors teams he has been pushing the limits of ...

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Irina Nazarova

@inazarova

14 days

I’ve never seen anything like that! right now in Kotor Bay

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Irina Nazarova

@inazarova

7 months

Excited to have a chance to speak at @euruko in September! See you all in Sarajevo! 🌸

EuRuKo

@euruko

7 months

CEO at @evilmartians , co-founder at @any_cable and a true coffee geek! As a recognized leader with rich experience in the #Ruby community, @inazarova will join us as one of the speakers for #EuRuKo2024 🙌 Fun fact: we drink a lot of ☕️ in #BiH , it's a perfect match! 🌹

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Irina Nazarova

@inazarova

5 months

Have you tried for Active Storage? It works like a charm, giving you an instant scale and efficiency boost. It's a clear example of the the power of the adapterization of #rails . Try it out and tell us what you think! #imgproxy

GitHub - imgproxy/imgproxy-rails

Contribute to imgproxy/imgproxy-rails development by creating an account on GitHub.

github.com

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Irina Nazarova

@inazarova

9 months

End of December is when I always have zero energy. This time I start suspecting that it's not the actual tiredness, but rather the process of resting and recharging, that I allow myself around Xmas, that feels like being tired... Anyways, we just had the Holiday Edition All Hands

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Irina Nazarova

@inazarova

10 months

18 years ago the Universe gifted me the friendship with someone bursting with happiness and warmth,and this gift is for life 💗

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Irina Nazarova

@inazarova

5 months

This week was crazy.. or, this _number of_ weeks. Among other things, we rented a small 2-person office (a wework) for the Martians in SF. We need it for visas, but hey, I already had a business meeting in the Salesforce park below. Hint: we expect more Martians here 🙏

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Irina Nazarova

@inazarova

6 months

We got this amazing recording of the meetup, and we're uploading it soon. Dan's take on Ruby, based on his experience building Postgres at Heroku, then Citus Data, Crunchy Data, and now Ubicloud, is on point: Ruby is practical, stable and restrained.

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Irina Nazarova

@inazarova

3 years

And this one!

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Irina Nazarova

@inazarova

2 years

Hey New York 👋

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Irina Nazarova

@inazarova

8 days

We need “generics” to replace Heroku and new overpriced PaaS in #RailsWorld opening keynote by @dhh . Make developers confident deploying and running Rails apps without locking on a vendor or an overpriced platform.

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Irina Nazarova

@inazarova

5 months

And this was a #RailsConf chess night for @JasonSwett and @palkan_tula ♟️

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Irina Nazarova

@inazarova

1 year

boarding my plane to Athens for @RailsSaaS ☀️

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Irina Nazarova

@inazarova

2 months

The video and slides from the SF #Ruby meetup are ready: Thank you again to @meraki for not only hosting us in the cool place, providing great pizza, healthy salad, and tasty drinks, but for the recording too 💚 Next time we meet on August 13 at Y

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Irina Nazarova

@inazarova

4 months

Using Postgres (or ClickHouse) as a driver for ActiveRecord, or @imgproxy_net as a driver for ActiveStorage, or replacing ActionCable with @any_cable is very different to "stitching" a bunch of 3d party services together.

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Irina Nazarova

@inazarova

11 months

My fav topic! @simonw dreamed of working for a decade on @datasetteproj and also hiring a team. Got accepted into GitHub Accelerator to find a sustainable model for this. Considered options: sponsorships, paid courses, SaaS and enterprise licensing. And decided to start SaaS on

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Irina Nazarova

@inazarova

23 days

In Sarajevo! Listening to the opening keynote of #EuRuKo by @fxn with @tapster

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Irina Nazarova

@inazarova

4 months

Examples of "latency" that we've seen recently were all about the tradeoff between the "zero latency illusion" of optimistic UI (Linear-like) and data accuracy (that requires a roundtrip to DB and cannot be instant). It's a design decision to be made separately in every case.

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Irina Nazarova

@inazarova

1 year

I wanted to share my impressions from #RailsWorld immediately, but I could not calm down 😅. What can I say? The shared excitement was so palpable you could spread it on a piece of bread. And we were the luckiest, with @palkan_tula and I speaking, @skryukov_dev supporting us.

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Irina Nazarova

@inazarova

3 years

Благодаря этому треду ревакцинировалась пфайзером, получила европейский сертификат о прививке, и теперь провожу отпуск в Париже 💙 Это точно реальность?

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@inazarova

4 months

Does it mean that they only use Ruby? Of course not! The superpower of Rails is its "adapterization". Adapterization means that as soon as you need to swap a part of the core with something more fitting, there is a well designed, native and productive way to do it.

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@inazarova

2 months

The rule of social media says that if you made a trip to downtown, you got to post a selfie.

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@inazarova

4 months

One more example: @WhopIO , a digital marketplace started during covid by three 21 year old recent college grads, built on Rails, reached $300+M sales volume, $18M funding, going strong! "Thanks to Rails, we could ship every feature our customers asked for"– @jacksharkey11

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Irina Nazarova

@inazarova

5 months

Hello SF!

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Irina Nazarova

@inazarova

11 months

my superpower... spend 20 min on makeup that no living being can notice... 😭 (also super sleepy after all the events in SF and flying back to Lisbon tomorrow)

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Irina Nazarova

@inazarova

1 year

Hey! This guy @sitnikcode is about to speak about conflict resolution in distributed systems and #CRDT at #DevBcn 🙌

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Irina Nazarova

@inazarova

5 months

@jmcharnes We recommend it! Solves the problems, for once.

Evil Martians: Rails Startup Stack

Evil Martians recommend a selection of services, gems, resources, and materials to build and grow fast-paced businesses with Ruby on Rails.

evilmartians.com

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Irina Nazarova

@inazarova

7 months

📆 March 28, 5 pm, SF Bay Area #Ruby Meetup at @github HQ! This is how I'm hoping meet and connect ALL rubyists of the Bay Area, and all the future ones too. One approved speaker is @palkan_tula . Please DM me if you want to speak, as we want 2-3 more 30-min talks. Let's hang out!

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@inazarova

9 months

Sofa ✅, table ✅, wifi ✅

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8 days

With @yukihiro_matz at #RailsWorld 💙

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Irina Nazarova

@inazarova

1 year

@rbranson @skamille I could never understand when and how personal attacks got normalized in this community. And making such statement about the author of one of the major web frameworks is not very sensible.

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Irina Nazarova

@inazarova

1 year

For my #RailsWorld talk I was looking for examples of large companies built on open source written in Ruby, something beyond @github and @gitlab . The finds are pretty cool: 1. @Instructure , based on open source Canvas LMS, an ed tech public company worth $3.6B. 2. @rapid7 , based

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Irina Nazarova

@inazarova

1 year

I really want to live up to these very kind words.

Tropical on Rails

@tropical_rb

1 year

Sem dúvida uma das pessoas mais incríveis a subir no palco da #RailsWorld foi a @inazarova ! Ela é um ótimo exemplo de “renaissance developers” que o @dhh falou que precisamos nos tornar #tropicalrb

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Irina Nazarova

@inazarova

8 months

I recorded my first podcast as a host today, with massive help from my team. As I was recording, I kept thinking about my first podcast as a guest, the Ruby on Rails podcast with Brittany Martin. She gave me so much confidence..

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Martian crew at #RailsWorld

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