Engine Yard, Inc.

S01E46: Christopher Bertels

November 4, 2011

• 0:30 Introduction: Chris and Fancy
• 1:27 When to use Fancy
• 2:40 Fancy and Ruby similarities and differences
• 3:50 Chris’ favorite thing about Fancy
• 5:20 Why Fancy is built on top of the Rubinius VM
• 7:44 Other language implementors building on top of the Rubinius VM
• 8:31 Contributing to Fancy
• 9:35 The contribution model for Fancy; areas where contribution is welcomed
• 10:50 Getting started with Fancy
• 11:46 Chris’ interest in distributed computing
• 13:00 Working at Twitter: what Chris does, the technologies uses at Twitter
• 14:36 Batman or Spiderman?
• 14:55 If you were guaranteed not to fail...

Links * Christopher Bertels on "github":https://github.com/bakkdoor on "Twitter":http://twitter.com/#!/bakkdoor/

• Fancy "Fancy website":http://www.fancy-lang.org/ "Fancy on github":https://github.com/bakkdoor/fancy

• "Alex Suraci on github":https://github.com/vito

• "Atomy project on github":https://github.com/vito/atomy

• "Clojure":http://clojure.org/

• "Cascalog":https://github.com/nathanmarz/cascalog

• "Distributed computing":http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distributed_computing

• "Python":http://www.python.org/

• "Rubinius":http://rubini.us/

• "Rubinius Hack Day (#rbxday)":http://rubini.us/2011/08/03/rbxday-in-real-life/

• "Storm - distributed and fault tolerant realtime computation":https://github.com/nathanmarz/storm

• "Twitter Analytics":https://dev.twitter.com/blog/introducing-twitter-web-analytics