RailsConf 2017 a round up By Aja Hammerly, Developer Advocate A few weeks ago the Google Cloud Ruby team attended RailsConf in Phoenix, Arizona. RailsConf is one of the largest conferences for Ruby programmers in the world and we were happy to spend three days learning and sharing with our community. We enjoyed hearing from folks that are currently using Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and were working diligently to integrate their feedback into our future products. About half of our team had never attended a Ruby conference before. Luckily they were in good company since about half of the attendees at the event were new to Ruby, conferences, tech, or all of the above. All of us enjoyed the keynotes including Rails core contributor Aaron Pattersons crap data joke and Rails creator DHHs discussion of how community values are reflected in programming languages and frameworks. He used Python and Ruby as his examples and showed how while they both share some values like "Readabilit...