Videos tagged with Rails

In this fast-paced, 30-minute session Peter Sevcik, founder and executive director of the Apdex Alliance, provides an overview of Apdex, an open standard for reporting, benchmarking, and tracking application performance. New Relic consultant Steve Hudson follows with real-world examples of how to measure Apdex scores in production Rails or Java web applications using RPM.

In this session Brian Doll, manager of software development at Sheet Music Plus, the nation’s leading online provider of sheet music, shares his tips on preparing your site optimal application performance, capacity and scalability during the peak season. In addition to providing specific optimization examples, Brian discusses a number of helpful steps in detail. These include:

If the bottleneck of your application is your database even after caching as much as possible, what can you do? This is the first of two screencasts where we’re going to learn about techniques for increasing the power of your Database. In this first video we learn how to grow our database step by step using both vertical and horizontal scaling.

In this second screencast we start out by learning the differences between the myISAM and InnoDB database engines for MySQL.  Next we learn how to scale a write heavy database by using Master Master replication, and how we might configure this to work with our Rails application.  Lastly we’ll figure out how to shard our database by spliting our tables between multiple databases and show how bot...

Listen to Jesse Proudman of Blue Box Group offer insights and advice for companies deciding whether to move to a Cloud-computing environment. Topics include:Choosing the Right Hosting EnvironmentPlay Video (68.9 MB, 10:51, QuickTime MOV)

Lior Shiff, CEO and Founder of Product Madness, discusses the benefits and challenges of developing social applications in dynamic, rapidly changing environments. He also shares valuable advice for Facebook developers.

Listen to Jesse Proudman of Blue Box Group offer insights and advice for companies deciding whether to move to a Cloud-computing environment. Topics include:

In part two of his discussion, Lior Shiff of Product Madness talks about the benefits of developing in Rails including, ease of use, maintainability, scalability. The talk concludes with an overview of effective development, testing and monitoring tools.

Ward Cunningham of AboutUs.org shares his thoughts on Agile development and the need to compliment the use of specific tools and processes with mastery of development techniques.

Summary Martin Fowler talks about ThoughtWorks's experience with using Ruby on client projects for the past three years, and the creation of a Ruby-based product 'Mingle'. Bio Martin Fowler is an author, speaker, consultant and general loud-mouth on software development. He's the Chief Scientist at ThoughtWorks - an international application development company, and has written five books on so...