I became involved with Bridge Troll through first attending a RailsBridge workshop. I later volunteered and helped teach at RailsBridge workshops. Once I started to become familiar with Ruby on Rails, I began contributing to the Bridge Troll source code. The community people working on open source code are extremely friendly and helpful. I have found that working on open source projects is a good place to learn about industry standards, learn to code collaboratively, gain insight on new approaches, receive mentorship and mentor others.

My team at Aspera IBM created a real-time data analytics platform using Kafka, Cassandra and Ruby on Rails. Cassandra can keep up with the high frequency of writes. Kafka can stream data from our daemon to our Rails Application. We now show our customers real-time & highly detailed historical data.