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----- Original message ----- From: Andy Croll via Chat <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Cc: Andy Croll <[email protected]> Subject: [LRUG] Brighton Ruby: A Marketing Email Date: Tuesday, 7 April 2026 19:04 My once a year marketing email (that I think I’ve forgotten to do the last few years?) Brighton Ruby is on Thursday June 25th, 2026. It’s good. Honest. The lineup is set, I'm excited and terrified again (that's normal).A mix of deep technical talks, ambition, practical wisdom in this age of change, and hopefully a little bit of weird as is our want as a community. ## Talks Elena Tanasoiu & Emma Gabriel from GitHub are going to teach you to read flamegraphs properly. They cut CPU on a single page by 13%. At GitHub scale. On Rails. Iliana Hadzhiatanasova from Intercom has been upgrading Rails since version 3.0. Fifteen years of upgrades in a three million line monolith. The war stories alone are worth the ticket. Rémy Hannequin will convince you that time is genuinely weird... and then show you how to handle it safely in Ruby. DST switches, timezone assumptions, all of it. Craig Norford on scaling Sidekiq with multi-tenancy. Shuffle sharding. Balancing cost and compute. The practical stuff. Alex Watt from Shopify built a Rails app improving healthcare in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. A reminder of what this stuff can actually do. Maria Yudina connects screenwriting to code and prompts. Clarity, structure, naming. The craft principles that transfer everywhere. Tijmen Brommet draws parallels between woodworking and software. From jigs to joints. It's a Brighton Ruby talk through and through. Jennie Evans on kindness in development teams. The small acts that make teams stronger. Don't underestimate this one. Tekin Süleyman has ten cool things about internationalisation that you probably don't know. I certainly didn't. Brian Casel opens the day asking what AI actually means for developers with established codebases and real users. Not the "build an app from scratch in 30 seconds" stuff. The real stuff. ### Get a ticket: https://ti.to/goodscary/brightonruby-2026 Also, for the first time I’m running a workshop: WEDNESDAY June 24th. Brian is also running a practical, hype-free AI workshop the day before the conference. Small group. Just 20 spots. Focused on using AI with your existing codebase, not building toy demos. If you've been wanting to figure out where AI actually fits into your day-to-day work, this is the one. This is at an additional cost to the regular conference. ### Workshop tickets: https://ti.to/goodscary/brighton-ruby-2026-brian-casel-workshop Cheers folks, hope to see some of you there, and I won’t hit this list again (in 2026). ADVERTISING BELOW THESE WORDS, BUT THEY’RE GOOD PEOPLE Brighton Ruby is brilliantly supported by… Cleo — https://web.meetcleo.com AppSignal — https://appsignal.com & Sorcer — https://sorcer.io/ mmtm — https://mmtm.io Bookwhen — https://bookwhen.com Jelly — https://app.letsjelly.com/signup?ref=goodscary Intercom — https://www.intercom.com Shopify — https://www.shopify.com CaptionHub — https://captionhub.com Avo - https://avohq.io _______________________________________________ Chat mailing list [email protected] Archives: http://lists.lrug.org/pipermail/chat-lrug.org Manage your subscription: http://lists.lrug.org/options.cgi/chat-lrug.org List info: http://lists.lrug.org/listinfo.cgi/chat-lrug.org -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "North West Ruby User Group (NWRUG)" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion, visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/nwrug-members/3701b44f-8113-4ff8-b205-762e0bcd5eea%40app.fastmail.com.
