From 2006-2010, Ezra was
THE tech tastemaker in the
Ruby OSS world.
"One name" Rubyists
of the era:
DHH, Matz, Zed, Ezra, ...
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EngineYard
• Co-founded EngineYard in 2006
• Had enormous influence in the
Rails world
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Literally wrote the book on Deploying Rails Applications
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Merb
• Mongrel + ERB
• Created Merb to work around Rails perf problems
for EY customers
• Merb merged with Rails as part of the 3.0 release
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Nginx
• The first to use Nginx in the Ruby world
• For about a year, his blog post at brainspl.at was
the only config documentation for setting it up with
Mongrel. Everyone used his config as a starting
point.
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Chef
• EngineYard was the first big deploy of Chef?
• Ezra co-wrote chef-solo
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Redis
• Gave the first conference talk
on Redis in 2009
• Created the "redis" gem, first
Ruby client
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There's more?
• Married with one kid
• Worked early on at CloudFoundry
• was a pro glass blower
• Ran a 3D printing startup (Trinity Labs)
• Recently co-founded Stuffstr
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By All Accounts...
• Loved to hack with others
• Keep that Open Source
generosity alive