Videos tagged with O'Reilly

Five contributors to O'Reilly's "High Performance JavaScript" (Nicholas Zakas, Stoyan Stefanov, Ross Harmes, Julien Lecomte, and Matt Sweeney) discuss advanced JavaScript and DOM scripting optimizations at the April 2010 BayJax meetup at Yahoo.

Panel Discussion with David Heinemeier Hansson and Rails Core Members David Heinemeier Hansson (37signals), Michael Koziarski (Koziarski Software Limited), Jeremy Kemper (37signals) Created by RailsConfEurope About David Heinemeier Hansson David Heinemeier Hansson is a programmer and evangelist of Less Software. He’s the creator of applications like Instiki, Basecamp, and Ta-da, and works...

Living with legacy software, David Heinemeier Hansson (37signals) Created by RailsConfEurope About David Heinemeier Hansson David Heinemeier Hansson is a programmer and evangelist of Less Software. He’s the creator of applications like Instiki, Basecamp, and Ta-da, and works with the open source community and design extraordinaires 37signals. Since its release in late July 2004, he’...

You think Sun is the Java company. Enterprise Edition. Steak and strippers. But Java’s only part of the story, and the story is changing every day. In ten minutes, you’ll get a whirlwind tour of a different Sun, one that gives hardware breaks to startups, open sources cornerstone software like Solaris, OpenJDK, ZFS and DTrace, and actively funds Ruby projects on and off the JVM. You...

Ruby and Rails Symposium: Versions, Implementations, and the Future, David A. Black (Ruby Central, Inc.) Created by RailsConfEurope About David A. Black David A. Black is a long-time Ruby and Rails programmer, author, and trainer. Active in the Ruby world since 2000, David is the author of Ruby for Rails: Ruby techniques for Rails developers, from Manning Publications. He has co-organized numer...

Performance on Rails, Jeremy Kemper (37signals). About Jeremy Kemper Jeremy Kemper (bitsweat) is a programmer at 37signals hailing from Pasadena, California. Hot on the heels of DHH, he has been the most active contributor to Rails. He’s knee deep in pretty much all aspects of the framework and one of the top batters against new, incoming tickets.  

Artur Bergman, hacker and technologist-at-large, is the VP of Engineering and Operations at Wikia. In this presentation, he discusses the importance of operations and performance. Created by VelocityConf

In this talk, Wolski presents Eucalyptus, an open source implementation of cloud computing that is interface compatible with Amazon.com’s EC2. The talk focuses on the design, the implementation tradeoffs that have been identified in implementing Eucalyptus as an exploratory tool, and the ways in which the tradeoffs have been addressed in the first version of the software. Rich Wolski (Uni...

Managing the energy-related costs of computing operations has become a first order concern for many organizations. In this talk, Barroso will outline some of the important energy cost and usage trends in datacenter operations, and describe a few of the key areas where there is significant potential for efficiency improvements. Luiz Barroso (Google) Created by VelocityConf

Web is built on a new software stack (varnish, rails, memcache, hadoop, etc.) Trends: 16 cores per socket for 2009, Sun, AMD and Intel on the same track. Clock rates will remain the same. Application memory capacity increasing, working to get 1TB of RAM at commodity prices ZFS and SSD, enterprise SSD, $0.08 per iops to compare to $2.43 per ios for HDD [Sun is clearly attacking the storage marke...