[LRUG] Talk proposal

[brendan murphy]

Hi Najaf,

I feel this would be a great talk, would be happy to have a pre chat with you if you need to sound a few things out.

Best

Brendan
enthuse.me



On 30 Aug 2013, at 23:39, Najaf Ali <ali at happybearsoftware.com> wrote:

> Hi guys,
> 
> Kicking around ideas for a talk for an LRUG meet, would love to know if there's any interest in something like this.
> 
> From a raw TCP socket to a Rails application
> 
> Rails, sinatra and friends do a lot of things to abstract away the details of handling HTTP requests and making HTTP responses, so I thought it would be fun to peel away some of those layers and take a look at what happens under the covers.
> 
> In a talk I think I'd go into:
> 
> * Very high level overview of TCP connections, a minimum viable web server with netcat
> * Rack applications, middleware, and how they're typically chained together
> * How Rails chains together rack middleware to do what it does (i.e. tracing the code path of a request from class Railtie all the way down to your apps controllers).
> 
> I'm thinking the talk would be 60-70% live coding/code-reading and the rest talking more generally about how all of the above fits together.
> 
> Any feedback appreciated :D
> 
> -- 
> Najaf Ali, http://happybearsoftware.com
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