Shopify Invests in Research for Ruby at Scale - Shopify

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This post details Shopify's investment in academic research to advance Ruby performance. It highlights funding for Professor Laurence Tratt's work on automatically generating JIT compilers, Professor Steve Blackburn's group on the MMTk garbage collection toolkit for Ruby, and Dr. Stefan Marr's research on improving interpreter startup and warmup times. The goal is to align academic research with the practical needs of large-scale Ruby applications, such as frequent redeployments, and to foster long-term community growth.