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RailsLab Scaling Rails: Episode #16 - Load Testing - Part 2
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This is the second of two episodes where we learn the basics of Load Testing our web applications. In this episode we take a look at autobench, a tool that automates our httperf load tests, then we... read more »

Level: any Jul 02, 2009 Votes: 0 Dmytro Shteflyuk

 
Railscasts #168: Feed Parsing
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Railscasts #168: Feed Parsing

Learn two different techniques for parsing an RSS feed using Feedzirra in this episode! read more »

Level: any Jun 30, 2009 Votes: 0 Dmytro Shteflyuk

 
SD Ruby Episode 64: Ruby 1.9.1
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SD Ruby Episode 64: Ruby 1.9.1

Bradly Feeley reviews the new features and syntax changes in the latest production ready Ruby release, Ruby 1.9.1. read more »

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Velocity 09: John Adams, "Fixing Twitter: Improving the Performance and Scalability"
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Velocity 09: John Adams, "Fixing Twit...

Twitter (twitter.com) is a micro-blogging service that allows users to answer the question “What are you doing?”. It takes a simple 140 character string (a tweet), and distributes that ... read more »

Level: any Jun 28, 2009 Votes: 0 Dmytro Shteflyuk

 
SD Ruby Episode 63: Earning an "A" in YSlow
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SD Ruby Episode 63: Earning an "A" in...

Nick Zadrozny takes us on a tour of basic website performance optimization, covering 13 optimizations you shouldn’t deploy your site without. He’ll also go over some sample implementati... read more »

Level: any Jun 26, 2009 Votes: 0 Dmytro Shteflyuk

 
RailsLab Scaling Rails: Episode #15 - Load Testing - Part 1
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One way to measure the scalability of your Rails application is to use Load Testing. This is the first of two screencasts where we attempt to give an introduction to load testing and show how to us... read more »

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Improving Running Components at Twitter
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Improving Running Components at Twitter

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Summary In this talk from QCon London 2009 Evan Weaver shows how Twitter keeps up with growth, by focusing on three performance milestones: caching strategy, the message queue and the cache client.... read more »

Level: advanced Jun 06, 2009 Votes: 0 Dmytro Shteflyuk

 
Merb: When Flexibility and Performance Matter
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Merb: When Flexibility and Performanc...

Summary Ruby became popular mainly thanks to Rails, but there is more to Ruby than Rails. Merb is the new kid on the "Ruby block" but what makes it so appealing? How does it relate to the enterpris... read more »

Level: advanced Jun 18, 2009 Votes: 0 Dmytro Shteflyuk

 
David Pollak On Lift Framework and Scala
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David Pollak On Lift Framework and Scala

Summary David Pollak talks about using Scala to write the Lift web development framework and his desire to write a productive framework that allows the developer to write concise code on top of a v... read more »

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Railscasts #167: More on Virtual Attributes
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Railscasts #167: More on Virtual Attr...

Use a virtual attribute to implement a simple tagging feature. In this episode I show you how to assign virtual attributes through a callback instead of a setter method. read more »

Level: any Jun 22, 2009 Votes: 0 Dmytro Shteflyuk