Peter Wagenet

🙋‍♀️ Question: If you are running an app with Ember 3.x or lower, what's preventing you from upgrading? I’m running a clinic @EmberConf 🐹 to help people get over the 4.0 hump. Reply with your story 👇, and share for more 👀 please! cc: @wycats

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@dodeja @scottmessinger @emberjs I'm not on here much, but I'd love to hear more about your concerns. Message me on the Ember Discourse and we can set up a call if you'd like.

@scottmessinger @emberjs Yeah I have concerns. We are heavily invested in it. Although if they future is grim then we need change our course. It's very hard to find engineers with ember.js experience.

Is the @emberjs community fading away?

@fabienpenso @skylight Can you reach out via our in-app messenger? Probably easier to chat that way and track the convo.

@wagenet @skylight That template is super easy tho, just a bunch of variables listed. Removing this sum brings the allocation number from 390k to 9k. I also tried this gist.github.com/penso/88b9bf3f… and it’s the other way, Skylight shows less than MemoryProfiler.

Used a single simple line to sum a column in Ruby ActiveRecord: `user.whatever.sum(:content_size)`. @skylight reports 390,000 allocations! WTF I checked, the SQL call is right. AR does is in a “smart” way.

@fabienpenso I just looked at this a bit more carefully, and what you're looking at is the view rendering, not just AR. This definitely seems possible in that context.

@wagenet I feel like this Skylight report is wrong, using a memory profiler I get 159 objects allocated for this same line.

@fabienpenso I filed an issue on our tracker: github.com/skylightio/sky…

@fabienpenso This count definitely seems wrong! We'll look into it.

@fabienpenso @skylight We'd love it too! Unfortunately, it does basically end up being an entirely brand new product.

@wagenet @skylight Obviously yeah, very different way to write it. Sadness

Just noticed @skylight is actually written in Rust, but they don’t offer Skylight for Rust backends…

@BramJetten @skylightio @AppSignal We've got a free 30-day trial with no-CC required for @skylight. Setup is really simple and our agent plays nice with other performance tools as well.

Is NewRelic stil the best way to monitor a Rails app (30M+ requests/month), or should I look at apps like @skylightio or @AppSignal?

@WorkRemoteFT @skylight Wrong @skylight.

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@AmIshoBaraka As a former Baptist, now Eastern Orthodox who's been a fan of yours for a number of years, I was pleasantly surprised to hear your recent positive comments about Orthodoxy. This is probably very presumptuous of me, but it's a topic I'm always happy to talk about.

@xeppelin @wycats @gaurav9576 @MattStopa @MisterAwesan @jeresig @tildeio @emberjs Thanks for reminding me about this! When I first got started I spent a ton of time answering questions in IRC, StackOverflow, and elsewhere.

@wycats @wagenet @gaurav9576 @MattStopa @MisterAwesan @jeresig @tildeio @emberjs On the other hand, helping others in forums or chat is much more approachable, it's like mini-docs. People ❤️ teaching others for various reasons, and the bar for proper grammar is way lower, almost to the level of spoken word.

I'm kind of amazed at how infrequently "contribute to OSS" is offered as advice to people looking for advice on getting their first programming job. It's not a magic bullet or anything, but ...

@xeppelin @gaurav9576 @MattStopa @wycats @MisterAwesan @jeresig @tildeio @emberjs Yeah, that’s tough. Clearly, we live in an English-centric world which is not at all fair to the billions of people who didn’t grow up speaking it. I wish I had a better answer.

@gaurav9576 @MattStopa @wagenet @wycats @MisterAwesan @jeresig @tildeio @emberjs True, but only for people with really good English. Back in the days, it took me up to 10 minutes to write a *tweet*, let alone docs. Tests are out of reach for noviced, too. I know these help a lot, but hard sell to someone who went into programming to *write code*

@MattStopa @gaurav9576 @wycats @MisterAwesan @jeresig @tildeio @emberjs By the way, couldn't help but notice your bio. Got curious where I was. Turns out that we're currently tied for #461. contributors.rubyonrails.org

@wagenet @gaurav9576 @wycats @MisterAwesan @jeresig @tildeio @emberjs Right but in the context of the post about getting jobs that is a very long play. I've trained friends and they got good paying jobs in 3 months. Regardless any oss you do will never hurt.

@MattStopa @gaurav9576 @wycats @MisterAwesan @jeresig @tildeio @emberjs Congrats! There are many routes that can work. All I wanted to get across is that the OSS route can work for many, myself included.

@MattStopa @gaurav9576 @wycats @MisterAwesan @jeresig @tildeio @emberjs Agreed, it's not fast, but in a healthy OSS community people will start to value you. Not to mention the fact that the more interaction you have the more you'll feel comfortable making the more glamorous contributions. In my experience you can see real progress in a year or two.

@gaurav9576 @wagenet @wycats @MisterAwesan @jeresig @tildeio @emberjs Yes but writing documentation or tests is probably not going to wow someone into hiring you. It is a way to start though. I guess the thing is OSS is the long way into getting a job generally.

@MattStopa @wycats @MisterAwesan @jeresig @tildeio In experience this isn’t always true. There’s often a lot of grunt work that OSS projects need a hand with. It’s not glamorous, but it’s a great way to get involved. It’s how I and a number of others got involved with @emberjs.

@wycats @MisterAwesan @jeresig @tildeio A problem with OSS is that it can be really hard to break in especially when you are new. You had a great situation latching onto one of the biggest libs in software. But generally you'll have to fix hard things (for a noob) to get your pr approved on a big project.

@SWS4Seniors @skylightframe @skylight That would certainly be nice sometimes! That said, you could also stop sending new tweets that continue to reference @skylight incorrectly.