Sponsors

Transistor.fm is a podcast hosting platform built with Ruby on Rails. Podcasters upload their audio to us, and we help distribute it to Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, and other podcast players. Best-in-class analytics, podcast websites, dynamic ad insertion, AI transcription, and private podcasts are also provided. Many dev-oriented podcasts to chosen to host with us, and we have a powerful API to create custom workflows for managing episodes, retrieving stats, and adding private podcast subscribers. We're a small 6-person team focused on running a calm company, building incredible software, and offering excellent customer service.

Ten Forward is a custom software and mobile app development company based in Madison, Wisconsin. We focus on good architecture, maintainability, quality, and timeliness, and work to create environments where success is inevitable for our employees, clients, and communities.

Honeybadger helps you gain actionable insight into your application errors, logs, and performance with an all-in-one observability platform built for Ruby developers. Now with structured logging!

GroupCollect is a company that makes web-based software solutions for the group travel industry. From the way that travelers register and pay for a group trip to the way tour operators build itineraries and find suppliers, GroupCollect has a custom-made, easy-to-use platform to make it all easier for everyone involved.

AppSignal helps you find bugs and slow actions before the rest of the world finds out. Error tracking, performance monitoring, custom metrics, host monitoring, logging, uptime, public status pages, and more, starting at $23 monthly. ISO 27001 certified and HIPAA compliant.

WyeWorks is a team of expert software consultants with a proven track record of near +15 years building software people love and enabling companies to succeed. Our team of passionate engineers enjoy working together in close collaboration and thrive when crafting high quality solutions using technologies we love like Ruby on Rails, Rust, Elixir and JavaScript. Clients love partnering with us, and we love helping them build the right thing right. WyeWorks is also committed to invest and help advance open-source technologies we use and communities we care for. Let's build the next big thing together!

Echobind is a full service digital agency transforming businesses. We bring expertise in strategy, design, and engineering to deliver top-notch products. Collaborate with us from the beginning, or plug us in where you need us.

DNSimple provides DNS hosting and domain management automation services through a powerful API and beautiful web interface. Register domains, manage DNS, and issue SSL certificates, with clients in Ruby, Go, Elixir, Node, and more. Manage your domains and DNS inside and outside our infrastructure. Take control of all your domains, DNS, and SSL certificates across registrars and providers – including those outside DNSimple's infrastructure – from a single pane of glass. With DNSimple's NEW Domain Control Plane, you can add, edit, or remove DNS records. Register, transfer, or renew domain names. Request and deploy SSL certificates.

Chime® is a financial technology company—not a bank—that believes basic banking services should be helpful, easy, and free. Together with our bank partners, we believe everyone can Unlock Financial Progress™, and we want to develop the solutions and services to empower people to do so. Our easy-to-use tools and intuitive platforms give members the ability to have more control over their money and to take action toward achieving their financial ambitions. Working at Chime means putting our members first, keeping our values in mind, and striving for long-term growth and success. We want to profit with our members, not from them. So far, we’re well-loved and proud to have helped millions.

Founded in 2006, 8th Light is a global team of software, design, and technology professionals. We partner with forward-thinking people and organizations to help them imagine and create elegant, robust, and groundbreaking software solutions to complex problems. With deep expertise and experience in software design, development, data, and DevOps, we work with a wide range of clients who are looking to achieve equally diverse outcomes. Rooted in a culture of continuous learning and collaboration, we’re employee-owned, and headquartered in Chicago, but our more than 140 team members live and work in locations including London, New York, Los Angeles, and Austin. Whether we’re crafting digital experiences that inform and inspire, energizing and empowering enterprises through technology-driven transformation, or nurturing and guiding internal teams looking to expand their own technological expertise and software-building capabilities, our objective is always the same: to help unlock human potential and spark change.

Flox is a platform that lets developers and operators focus on building fast with reproducible environments that span the enterprise SDLC. Using a declarative framework based on Nix, a package management and configuration tool, Flox allows developers to create environments that contain everything they need to build software.

Two Ruby programmers (Collin Donnell and Joel Drapper) discuss Ruby, web and native software development, technology, and more.