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A Tribute to Ezra Zygmuntowicz aka @ezmobius

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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

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Ezra's Memorial Fund http://bit.ly/ezrafund