02:28 - Ruby in a Polyglot Architecture (Panel Experience)04:21 - Does Ruby do well or not in the microservices area? Is Ruby keeping up?07:30 - What are areas where Ruby still beats other languages?

• Speed and Momentum
• Dependency Management
  • CPAN
  • Bundler
  • npm

13:12 - Polyglotting Architecture if Only Using Ruby for Build Tools, Deployment Tools, etc.?

• “Deployment is part of the code.”
  • Capistrano
  • rake

16:09 - Error Messages 18:20 - Tradeoffs in a Polyglot Architecture (Negatives)

• Context Switching
  • AWK
  • DSLs

34:35 - Learning Programming

• Ruby as a First Language?
• What is a good language for beginners?
  • Smalltalk
  • Scheme
  • Python

41:24 - Mixing Languages