New PC day!

I'm happy to have Peter Zhu to come our 株式会社primeNumber booth! Thank you❤️🍊 #rubykaigi

Come to my RubyKaigi talk today at 3:40 to look at the modular garbage collectors feature in Ruby 3.4. We’ll discuss what it is, how it’s implemented, and how we’re implementing MMTk using modular GC. Hope to see you there! rubykaigi.org/2025/presentat… #rubykaigi #rubykaigi2025

Thanks for coming to my talk at RubyKaigi today. My slides are available at blog.peterzhu.ca/assets/rubykai… We’re also hiring Ruby and Rails developers at Shopify! shopify.com/careers

If you missed it, my recent #rubykaigi talk “Modular Garbage Collectors in Ruby” covered: ⚙️ Features the current Ruby GC lacks 🔄 Implementation of the Modular GC feature in Ruby 3.4 🔨 What MMTk is and the integration with Modular GC The recording will be up in a few months!

Excited to be giving a talk at Rails World this year! rubyonrails.org/world/2025/day…

My RubyKaigi talk recording is up on YouTube! youtube.com/watch?v=04axm4…

I just published "Implementing Embedded TypedData Objects" about a feature Jean Boussier and I worked on for Ruby 3.3. A bit late, but better than never. railsatscale.com/2025-06-03-imp…

At the ISMM conference today we presented our paper about our contributions to Ruby’s garbage collector. This was the result of a multi-year collaboration between researchers at the Australian National University and Shopify. Read it here: blog.peterzhu.ca/assets/ismm_20…

In his #RailsWorld talk, Shopify Staff Developer and Ruby committer Peter Zhu will explain how they deal with Ruby crashes in the Shopify monolith, the world’s largest Ruby on Rails application, and how you can use some of their techniques. He’ll cover topics such as how they

Excited for my Rails World talk on Friday! #railsworld

Events in Rails applications are the heartbeat of your code - whether it's a log, a telemetry signal, or a business event, they tell us when something interesting is happening. 💓 After years of custom logging solutions, we're thrilled to launch the Structured Event Reporter

Databases crash, connections drop, and queries timeout at the worst possible moments. How do you prepare for DB chaos? At #RailsWorld2025, Senior Developer Hartley McGuire dives into the latest optimizations in Rails 8, more specifically how Active Record intelligently manages

Day two of #RailsWorld is under way! Follow the 2025 playlist on YouTube to hear talks from speakers throughout the day: youtube.com/playlist?list=…

Honored to give a talk at #RailsWorld again, on the same stage 2 years later. The recording should be up in a few weeks but you can find the slides here in the meantime: blog.peterzhu.ca/assets/rails_w…

My #RailsWorld talk recording is up! youtu.be/9r0xmX0oK5Y?si…

Shopify sponsors and collaborates with academia to take Ruby to new heights. We're working with Australian National University to integrate Memory Management Toolkit into Ruby. Earlier this year, we published a paper about it. Today, we wrote a blog post: railsatscale.com/2025-09-16-rew…

Friday was my last day of an incredible journey at Shopify. In the past 5 years, I had the privilege of working on some cutting edge projects to advance Ruby with some of the most talented and well-known developers. Shopify will always have a very special place in my heart.

I’m excited to share that I’m starting as a Staff Developer at Figma!

I tried to explain why I don't believe the recent accusations toward my former teammates, as well as how the Ruby and Rails Infra team at Shopify operates and why it can be trusted. byroot.github.io/opensource/rub…