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Jean Boussier
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@_byroot

Jean Boussier

@_byroot
Rails core, Ruby committer, Senior Principal Engineer at Intercom. Bsky: byroot.bsky.social Mastodon: @[email protected]
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github.com/byroot
Joined April 2022
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    Jean Boussier
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    Oct 23, 2023
    After several months of work, we finally enabled Pitchfork reforking on 100% of Shopify's monolith. ~30% reduction in memory usage, ~9% better latency and more!
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    Effects of Pitchfork reforking on Shopify’s Monolith
    From railsatscale.com
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    Jean Boussier
    @_byroot
    Aug 13
    A quick followup on Ruby Hashes
    byroot.github.io
    Speeding Up (small) Ruby Hashes
    Something I must confess is that I absolutely hate writing these blog posts. It’s not quite as bad as having to give a conference talk, but it’s up there on the list of activities that feel like...
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    Jean Boussier
    @_byroot
    Aug 11
    I'll probably release the final 3.0.0 version early September, so if you got time please try the RC1 and submit any feedback you may have:
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    Release v3.0.0.rc1 · ruby/json
    From github.com
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    Jean Boussier
    @_byroot
    Aug 6
    A history of Ruby's Hash tables, and how we can make them use less memory:
    byroot.github.io
    Shrinking Ruby Hashes
    As you may know, one area of Ruby performance optimization that particularly interests me is memory usage. Given that most Ruby deployments rely on fork, improving Copy-on-Write performance is...
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    Jean Boussier
    @_byroot
    Jul 26
    While it has been 18 months since I blogged about it, the json gem performance has improved quite significantly since, so now is a good time to add a few more parts to my JSON series:
    byroot.github.io
    Optimizing Ruby’s JSON, Part 8
    It has now been about 18 months since I concluded my post series on optimising Ruby’s json.
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