RR 370: How I Built Timeasure with Eliav Lavi

Ruby Rogues

Jul 10, 2018•48 min•Transcript available on Metacast

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Panel:

David Richards
Dave Kimura
Eric Berry
Catherine Meyers

Special Guests: Eliav LaviIn this episode of Ruby Rogues, the panel talks to Eliav Lavi about his article How I Built Timeasure. Eliav works for Riskified where he is a back-end developer working with Ruby mostly and recently some Scala. In the past, he studied music but had always been into technology from a young age. They talk about how got to where he is today, what the developer scene is like in Israel, and Timeasure. They talk about what this gem is, why they decided to create it, and more!In particular, we dive pretty deep on:

Eliav intro
Studied music originally
Risk analyst at Riskified
Company started on Ruby on Rails
Been a professional developer for the last year and a half
Self-taught programmer
Used blogs and books to learn
How welcoming and helpful the Ruby community is
What’s the developer scene like in Israel?
Rails and JavaScript jobs common in Israel
English as the common denominator for code
What is Timeasure?
Needed a way to measure the run-time of code
Safe to use in production
Easy DSL
Did you look at other gems first before creating this?
Used NewRelic originally
How is the data stored?
What to do with all the collected measurements?
NewRelic Insights
Ruby Prof
And much, much more!

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RR 370: How I Built Timeasure with Eliav Lavi

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