PickVidsBest Python, Ruby & scripting languages Videos
The 120 Python, Ruby & scripting languages videos here were recommended by different people across different months. Choose by who it is for: 18 introductory, 68 intermediate, 18 for a general viewer, and 16 for someone who wants the harder derivation. Most of them are a talk. What they share is that one speaker finishes a claim, and the examples exist to hold that claim up. Channels you will keep seeing include Confreaks, Next Day Video, PyCon 2016.
Brandt Bucher – A JIT Compiler for CPython
Brandt Bucher presents his prototype JIT compiler for CPython at the 2023 Core Developer Sprint.
Friday evening lightning talks
A PyCon 2013 block of Friday evening lightning talks.
Keynote - Preventing, Finding, and Fixing Bugs On a Time Budget | Raymond Hettinger @ PyBay2018
Raymond Hettinger's PyBay 2018 keynote on preventing, finding and fixing bugs under a time budget.
GoRuCo 2012 Hexagonal Rails by Matt Wynne
Matt Wynne's GoRuCo 2012 talk on why Rails apps get hard to change as they grow, and how a ports-and-adapters hexagonal architecture separates application logic from the framework.
Bringing SIMD to the Web via Dart
John McCutchan of Google explains how Dart and the Dart VM expose SIMD instructions to speed up web software.
Scalability at YouTube
A PyCon 2012 talk by early YouTube engineer Mike Solomon on how YouTube scaled its architecture, which is mostly Python.
Mojo Lang - Tomorrow's High Performance Python? (with Chris Lattner)
Developer Voices interviews Chris Lattner about Mojo, a Python-compatible language aimed at CPU/GPU performance built on LLVM and MLIR.
Larry Wall Speaks at Google
Larry Wall speaks at Google's Chicago office in 2008 about the Perl community, the language, and Perl 6.
APL at Julia's Speed | Shashi Gowda | JuliaCon 2016
A JuliaCon 2016 talk by Shashi Gowda showing an APL implementation in Julia.
Python at Massive Scale - Stephen Simmons, Neil Slinger
A PyData London 2018 talk on how JPMorgan scaled its Athena Python platform over ten years to about 35 million lines of code and thousands of developers.
Compiling and Optimizing Scripting Languages
Paul Biggar's Google Tech Talk on compiling and optimizing scripting languages, drawn from his work on the phc ahead-of-time PHP compiler.
RailsConf 2011: Aaron Patterson, "Double Dream Hands: So Intense!"
Aaron Patterson's RailsConf 2011 talk on Rails 3.1 performance, showing why deeper Rack middleware stacks slow Rails and how a shallower pipeline helps.
October CincyRb - Jim Weirich on Decoupling from Rails
A Cincinnati Ruby meetup talk by Jim Weirich on decoupling application logic from Rails.
Coroutines and Loom behind the scenes by Roman Elizarov
Roman Elizarov compares Kotlin Coroutines with OpenJDK Project Loom virtual threads, looking at their design goals and how those translate into different implementations and tradeoffs.
Interview with Steve Yegge on Rhino on Rails and more
Steve Yegge is interviewed at Google's Kirkland office about the birth, growth and future of his Rhino on Rails project, a Rails clone on the Rhino JavaScript engine, and other web development topics.
Optional - The Mother of All Bikesheds by Stuart Marks
Stuart Marks explains the intended purpose and proper use of Java 8's Optional class and why it caused so much controversy.
Microsoft Vista Speech Recognition Tested - Perl Scripting
A 2007 video of someone trying to write Perl code using Windows Vista's speech recognition, with hilariously bad results.
Windows Vista Speech Recognition Tested - Perl Scripting
A 2007 video of someone trying to write Perl scripts using Windows Vista speech recognition, with comically bad results.
Sky: An Experiment Writing Dart for Mobile (Dart Developer Summit 2015)
Eric Seidel presents Sky, an experimental open-source framework for writing mobile apps in Dart with fast development cycles and 60Hz UI.
Totally Gridbag
Totally Gridbag is a short humorous animation about the frustrations of Java Swing's GridBagLayout, originally made as a Flash cartoon.
How Netflix Uses Java - 2025 Edition
A Netflix engineer describes how Netflix uses Java in 2025, including Spring Boot, DGS/GraphQL, gRPC and keeping over 3000 services on the latest JDK.
JVMLS 2015 - Java Goes AOT
Christian Thalinger presents at the 2015 JVM Language Summit on adding ahead-of-time compilation to the JVM, covering the HotSpot team's AOT work and its relation to warmup and deoptimization.
Q&A with Guido van Rossum, Inventor of Python
An open Q&A with Python creator Guido van Rossum hosted by Microsoft Reactor, covering his career, PyCon's origins and his opinions on other languages.
Rasmus Lerdorf - 25 Years of PHP - phpday 2019
Rasmus Lerdorf marks 25 years of PHP at phpday 2019 with a look at the highlights and lowlights of the language.