Lean Startups With Ruby and Rails

The Lean Startup was an awesome manifesto, but how does it work in practice? How do you implement cohort analytics and A/B splits? How much testing is "enough"? How can Metrics Driven Development help you to prioritize features? What about feature toggles, canary testing and and an application immune system? In this session we'll look at practical approaches to implementing lean startups using Ruby and Rails.

Peter Bell is CTO of Skinnio - a lean startup in NYC based out of DogPatch labs. He's been living the lean startup life full time since June and has consulted for hundreds of startups since 2002. He teaches regularly at General Assembly - a startup hub in NYC and is writing a book for Addison Wesley on agile software development. He's been published in IEEE Software, Dr. Dobbs, IBM developerWorks and Information Week and has rebuilt skinnio from the ground up four times in the last seven months.