Extreme Makeover: Rubygems Edition

Rubygems.org provides every Rubyist with an amazing service: all the libraries in the Ruby world. As amazing as that is, installing gems can be a time-consuming and even error-prone process. (Just ask the Travis guys.) In this talk, you'll learn about the recent dramatic changes in Rubygems and Bundler to improve speed and reliability by rewriting the Rubygems client/server architecture. I'll show how the new system caches more information, makes fewer requests, and takes less time to install gems. Finally, I'll cover how the changes allow worldwide mirrors of rubygems.org, improving things for Rubyists around the globe.

Transcript

1. Extreme Makeover: Rubygems Edition
2. André Arko @indirect
4. State of the Rubygems Year in Review
5. Bundler DDoS ! ! ! ! !
6. Bundler DDoS
7. Security breach
8. Rebuilt rubygems.org
9. Travis network issues ☁️
10. Travis DNS issues ☁️
11. SSL failures ⚠️
12. SSL fixes
13. How it works today
14. How it works today with a fast connection, at least
15. How it works today could be better
16. We Have A Plan
17. We Have A Plan cache the metadata
18. We Have A Plan put a CDN on it
19. We Have A Plan allow local mirrors
20. ! +
21. What we’ve done designed the new index new index from bundler-api new index in bundler
22. What’s left to do new index from rubygems.org new index in rubygems fastly-hosted index files
23. The Future
24. gem install bundler --pre bundle install -j8
25. you can help! andre@arko.net @indirect