10 Seconds to 100ms; Optimising a Legacy Endpoint / Responding to a Rails Security Incident

Agenda

18:30 〜 19:00 Doors open

Grab a drink and catch up with your fellow Rubyists.

19:00 ~ 19:05 Opening

We'll kick things off by welcoming everyone and giving a short introduction of the event.

19:05 〜 19:35 10 seconds to 100ms; optimising a legacy endpoint - Brett Tanner

Brett's first task after joining a new team was improving the performance of a legacy endpoint which often took ~10 seconds to respond and blocked rendering. 'Surely this will be easy' he thought to himself, 'just remove some unnecessary data, optimise the json formatting and move on'. One month and one incident later the endpoint's performance was in fact improved, but at what cost...

Profile

Brett is a full stack web developer currently working for Moneytree, a fintech company based in Tokyo, Japan. Prior to Moneytree he worked as the sole web developer for a chain of English schools; designing, developing and deploying full stack web applications like an event registration site and learning management system.

19:35 〜 20:05 Responding to a Rails Security Incident - Paul McMahon

In this presentation, Paul will walk you through an incident where resumes of 460 individuals became unintentionally public due to a combination of features interacting with each other in an unexpected way. He'll cover what caused the vulnerability, how it was resolved, and lessons generally about security in Ruby on Rails.

Profile

Paul McMahon has been building with Ruby on Rails since 2006. He founded Tokyo Rubyist Meetup in 2010 and runs TokyoDev, a job board and community for international developers in Japan.

20:05 〜 21:00 Open Networking

Discuss the presentations or anything else Ruby related with the other attendees.

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