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Ezra Zygmuntowicz has died

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Post by tmornini_ey »

milesf wrote: post #18
tmornini_ey wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Ezra agreed to co-found Engine Yard in January 2006, and was full-time in August or September I believe. Merb was built to handle a high-traffic endpoint for one of our customers. :-)

So Merb's genesis was in response to a customer's need? I remember Rails, Ruby, and the hosting stack being mighty slow back in the early days.

Yes, it was 100% in response to our customers' needs.

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Post by Nutella4 »

brumir wrote: post #4

I meet Ezra at RailsConf 2007, this was pre Engine yard if I am not mistaken. At this point he was all merb. He was fun to be around, very positive attitude and extremely smart. Sad day…

When I was very new to Rails, I heard a talk Ezra gave at a RailsConf about the work he had done setting up and configuring servers for EY when they were just starting out. He spoke about the technical details with great enthusiasm for a few minutes and then stopped, laughed, and said "Can you tell I love my job?".

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Post by eliziggy »

Hello everyone. Here is the link to my Brother Ezra's son Ryland's Memorial fund. If I know one thing at this time it was that my brother loved and wanted to provide for his son. Please help us do that any way you can. Please share via Twitter or any media or with friends who want to help out. Thanks for all the support.

http://igg.me/at/ezrazyg/x/2405939

Best, Eli Zygmuntowicz

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Post by milesf »

eliziggy wrote: post #41

This is Ezra's brother, Eli Zygmuntowicz. Thank you all for you kind comments. I know he valued his programming and tech community immensely. He will be sorely missed by his family, friends and son. If any of you are interested, we are having a memorial service for him in Portland this Wednesday, Dec 3. We are also setting up a memorial trust fund for his son, Ryland. Please email me at eliziggy@hotmail.com if you wo…

Here's the link to the memorial fund:

https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/ezra-zygmuntowicz-memoria...

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Post by hassox »

Ezra was an inspiration to me. My first ever OS contribution was to merb, and his was so helpful, it inspired me to keep going. It was great to work with him on that project, and later at Engineyard. So sorry to hear of his passing.

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Post by inetdavid »

I'm very sad to hear this.

In the very early days of Rails Ezra was one of the most helpful people on the IRC channel. When he mentioned that he worked only a few hundred miles away I helped hire him at a small software outfit in Spokane, WA and worked closely with him for over a year.

From there he left to co-found EngineYard.

He did so much for the Ruby community and will sorely missed.

I'm glad I had a chance to know him.

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Post by excsm »

I too would like to echo the sentiments that already have been expressed here. I remember discovering nginx through his blog post about how to easily set up rails with it. I had issues with backgroundrb and he was so kind to help me out over irc and countless other moments. I also remember him bringing Redis to my attention I think he did so for a large number of us. I followed his work as I had a deep respect and admiration for him as a person. So tragic to hear this news. Really gutted. I will never forget him.

Never had a chance to meet him in person so Thank you Ezra.

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Post by milesf »

eliziggy wrote: post #41

This is Ezra's brother, Eli Zygmuntowicz. Thank you all for you kind comments. I know he valued his programming and tech community immensely. He will be sorely missed by his family, friends and son. If any of you are interested, we are having a memorial service for him in Portland this Wednesday, Dec 3. We are also setting up a memorial trust fund for his son, Ryland. Please email me at eliziggy@hotmail.com if you wo…

Here's an etherpad collecting the articles, tweets, and other links in memoriam of Ezra:

https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/ezra

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