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Sponsor Moment Cisco Meraki: Ruby Love

Alan Ridlehoover • November 13, 2024 • Chicago, IL • Talk

Summary of Cisco Meraki at RubyConf 2024

In a brief sponsorship moment at RubyConf 2024, Alan Ridlehoover, a senior engineering manager at Cisco Meraki, introduced the company and its ties to the Ruby and Rails communities. He emphasized Cisco's commitment to powering an inclusive future and expressed appreciation for Ruby Central’s efforts to build and support the entire Ruby community through conferences and various initiatives.

Key Points Discussed:

  • Cisco Meraki’s Presence:

    • Cisco Meraki has been sponsoring and participating in Ruby conferences for several years, distancing itself from more prominent vendors.
    • Ridlehoover humorously described the company as “the largest Rails shop you’ve never heard of.”

  • Use of Ruby at Cisco:

    • Cisco actively uses Ruby, both with and without Rails.
    • The company runs a monolithic application that allows customers to remotely configure and monitor their networking devices, showcasing its extensive use of Ruby technologies.

  • Company History:

    • Cisco Meraki was founded just 11 days after Twitter in 2006, highlighting its journey and contributions since then.

  • Partnership and Community Support:

    • Ridlehoover underscored Cisco’s purpose of fostering an inclusive future and stated the importance of partnering with Ruby Central.
    • He invited Ruby developers to connect with Cisco’s recruiting team, who are actively seeking talented Rubyists.

Main Takeaways:

  • Cisco Meraki values its connection to the Ruby community and its contributions through sponsorships and local meetups.
  • The company continues to leverage Ruby in innovative projects, showcasing the language's versatility and importance in modern application development.
  • This sponsorship reflects Cisco's commitment not just to technology, but to the growth and support of the Ruby community as a whole.

In conclusion, Cisco Meraki, represented by Alan Ridlehoover at RubyConf 2024, reaffirmed its engagement with the Ruby community while highlighting the company's technical endeavors and inviting collaboration from developers.

Sponsor Moment Cisco Meraki: Ruby Love
Alan Ridlehoover • November 13, 2024 • Chicago, IL • Talk

RubyConf 2024

00:00:15.280 so uh now I'd like to welcome up to the
00:00:17.119 stage one of our uh Ruby sponsors uh
00:00:21.119 Cisco moroi alen Ral Hoover
00:00:36.680 well hello my name is Alan rle Hoover
00:00:39.239 I'm a senior engineering manager at
00:00:40.719 Cisco
00:00:41.559 moraki and uh we've been come on we've
00:00:45.480 been sponsoring and speaking and
00:00:47.360 attending these conferences for a couple
00:00:50.039 of years now not nearly as many as some
00:00:52.239 of the vendors um but in that time we
00:00:56.520 started off by introducing ourselves as
00:00:59.000 the largest ra you've never heard
00:01:03.799 of aha thank you now they gave me my
00:01:07.600 talking
00:01:09.600 track all right so we've been attending
00:01:12.759 for a while now we introduced ourselves
00:01:14.720 as the largest roal shop you've never
00:01:16.040 heard of but we've been speaking and and
00:01:18.840 attending and um well I can't get this
00:01:21.960 right
00:01:23.680 um we've been speaking and attending for
00:01:26.200 a while now and so if you've been to a
00:01:27.479 rails conf or a ruby conf for the last
00:01:29.119 couple of years you've probably heard of
00:01:30.960 us by now for those of you who haven't
00:01:33.680 though allow me to introduce us by
00:01:36.000 answering some questions we get a
00:01:39.720 lot yes Cisco uses
00:01:42.720 rails um we also use Ruby quite
00:01:45.360 extensively without rails um but no we
00:01:49.799 don't run it on our Hardware our
00:01:51.920 Hardware is written our firmware is
00:01:53.759 written in
00:01:54.759 C++ and so where do we run it then well
00:01:58.079 we have a really giant monolith that
00:02:00.039 customers use to remotely configure and
00:02:02.640 monitor their networking devices it's
00:02:05.039 actually some pretty cool stuff uh and
00:02:07.960 finally here's a fun fact that I didn't
00:02:10.119 know until I looked it up we were
00:02:12.360 founded just 11 days after Twitter in
00:02:16.800 2006 and our experience has been a
00:02:18.959 little different than theirs though so I
00:02:21.239 wrote about
00:02:23.239 it I wrote about it in
00:02:26.560 haou this is for you mats
00:02:30.640 Ruby is pure joy long after the fail
00:02:34.160 whale bailed we still use
00:02:43.640 rails so that's a little bit about us
00:02:46.280 but why are we
00:02:47.680 here well at Cisco our purpose is to
00:02:50.959 power an inclusive future for all and we
00:02:54.120 couldn't imagine a better partner in the
00:02:56.080 Ruby Community than Ruby Central we're
00:02:59.080 so grateful for their commitment to the
00:03:00.680 entire Ruby Community uh through their
00:03:03.640 conferences their open open source
00:03:06.280 initiatives uh and through the local
00:03:08.400 Ruby Meetup support plus my recruiting
00:03:12.360 team which is here uh tells me we always
00:03:15.400 need more great rubyists so come network
00:03:19.360 with us have a great conference
00:03:28.760 thanks for
Alan Ridlehoover
@aridlehoover
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