Jekyll2026-08-12T19:56:17+00:00https://derek.stride.host/talks/rss.xmlderekstride | Talksderekstridescaling-shopify2025-11-15T00:00:00+00:002025-11-15T00:00:00+00:00https://derek.stride.host/talks/scaling-shopifyI give this talk every year to Carleton University Software Engineering students on scaling software systems using
examples from Shopify’s history as it grew from 10’s of requests per second to multi-millions requests per seconds.
]]>derekstrideruby-tree-sitter2025-01-27T00:00:00+00:002025-01-27T00:00:00+00:00https://derek.stride.host/talks/ruby-tree-sitterIn this talk I introduce Tree-sitter, give an overview of different parsing techniques and how they compare to the
decisions made by Tree-sitter. Finally, I introduce the Ruby Tree-sitter gem, and show how to use it to load & interact
with Tree-sitter parsers.