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RailsLab Master's Interviews: Thorsten von Eicken, RightScale
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Thorsten von Eicken, CTO and founder of RightScale, shares his insights on the advantages of deploying in the cloud. Discussion topics include design, implementation, and management considerations ... read more »

Level: any Jul 09, 2009 Votes: 0 Dmytro Shteflyuk

 
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

 
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 »

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

 
RailsLab Master's Interviews: Adam Wiggins and Ryan Tomayko, Heroku
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RailsLab Master's Interviews: Adam Wi...

An interview in 3 parts with Adam Wiggins and Ryan Tomayko of Heroku from their recent visit to New Relic. They discuss the vision behind the creation of Heroku, their passion for helping developer... read more »

Level: any Jun 20, 2009 Votes: 0 Dmytro Shteflyuk

 
RailsLab Scaling Rails: Episode #14 - Rack & Metal
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Rails 2.3 shipped with Rack support and contains a set of middleware libraries which can be used to customize and optimize your Rails application. In this screencast we go over the basics of Rack &... read more »

Level: any Jun 12, 2009 Votes: 0 Dmytro Shteflyuk

 
RailsLab Developing for Performance: Application Server Provisioning and Tuning
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There’s tons of information out there for Rails developers, but help for Ops teams is seemingly a bit thin. Scaling with hardware is a common approach, however hardware alone cannot scale an ... read more »

Level: any Apr 25, 2009 Votes: 0 Dmytro Shteflyuk

 
RailsLab Rails Teamwork: Scalable Teams, Part 2 – Leadership
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RailsLab Rails Teamwork: Scalable Tea...

Change is a constant in software development. Requirements change and there’s always more than one way to solve any problem. Team members join in, and depart - some senior, some junior. How d... read more »

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RailsLab Rails Teamwork: Scalable Teams, Part 1 – Communication
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RailsLab Rails Teamwork: Scalable Tea...

When talking about scalability we often mean hardware or software. However, a key aspect of software projects is the human factor. It’s also a key expense. Wolfram Arnold at Ru... read more »

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RailsLab Developing for Performance: RAILS_ENV=local_production
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Jim walks us through connecting a local development environment to a remote production database. Doing this allows you to accurately reproduce bugs and test new features against real production data. read more »

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RailsLab Scaling Rails: Episode #13 - Jim Gochee & Advanced RPM
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Jim Gochee is the VP of Engineering at New Relic, where he’s helped shape RPM, their server monitoring tool. After asking him his recommendations for Scaling Rails, we take a closer look at s... read more »

Level: any Mar 21, 2009 Votes: 0 Dmytro Shteflyuk