[Euruko 2025] “Prioritization justice: lessons from making background jobs fair at scale”– Alexander

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💎 Talk at Euruko 2025 – Viana do Castelo, Portugal 🎙️ Alexander Baygeldin – Backend Engineer at Evil Martians, Portugal 🗓️ September 19, 2025 Is your background job system fair? Your users might be unknowingly suffering from resource hogs. In this talk, Alexander Baygeldin explores the hidden imbalances in background job queues — and shares practical strategies for bringing fairness, visibility, and justice to job prioritization at scale. 🔴 Talk: “Prioritization justice: lessons from making background jobs fair at scale” A deep look into equitable job processing — with real examples of how to make queues more just for every user. — 📍 About the speaker: Alexander is a backend engineer at Evil Martians with a passion for clean, maintainable code and modern web architecture. He’s experienced with Ruby, Rails, PostgreSQL, Golang, JavaScript, and React — and deeply values the open-source community. 📍 About Euruko: Euruko (European Ruby Conference) is the longest-running Ruby event in Europe. The 2025 edition took place in Viana do Castelo, Portugal, on September 18–19, with a community-powered program and a special Ruby Safari on the 20th. 🌐 Learn more: 2025.euruko.org 🔗 Follow us: #Euruko2025 #TheHeartOfCode #RubyCommunity #RubyConf