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Ruby on Rails: scaling to 1 billion page views per month

While a lot of attention has been focused on Twitter with questions about whether Ruby on Rails scales, LinkedIn has been quietly running a RoR application on Facebook that is beating down around 1 billion page view per month. Bumpersticker, a relatively trivial Facebook application that allows you to create...

Tags: LinkedIn, Ruby, Joyent, Ruby On Rails, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2008-06-23

Rescuing Twitter's trainwreck

Rescuing Twitter's trainwreckWhat is twitter?... and why should we care about it?Was hoping for an anwer...I have been trying to understand the Twitter phenomenon. It seems like its simply a service for posting short messages and it can't handle the load. I'm trying to understand if there is something more...

Tags: Twitter

Discussion threads 2008-06-01

Twitter clears Ruby on Rails on scaling wrongdoing

Twitter clears Ruby on Rails on scaling wrongdoingDumb MoveAny good developer knows to never compromise development time for a quicker product. Hence, why twitter is failing as a "company".Though to me, I have no idea why anyone would use anything other than .NET and Java. Why use untested languages? makes...

Tags: Scripting languages, Ruby on Rails, Ruby, Twitter

Discussion threads 2008-05-30

Twitter's failure updates: not good enough

Update 5/30/08 11:00am EDT: TechCrunch says "Twitter's doing an excellent job of actually communicating with users all of a sudden." That's nonsense. Yes, they've improved, but there's a long way to go to achieve failure communication greatness. Twitter's downtime, lack of reliability and...

Tags: Technorati, Twitter, Ruby On Rails, Blogging, Scripting Languages, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Internet, Michael Krigsman

Blog posts 2008-05-30

Twitter clears Ruby on Rails on scaling wrongdoing

Twitter has answered a burning question in the development community: Will Ruby on Rails stay as it overhauls its infrastructure? The answer: Ruby stays, but Twitter may diversify in some areas. Ruby on Rails has been tarnished a bit by Twitter's outages, but in a Q&A on...

Tags: Ruby On Rails, Ruby, Twitter, Rails, Scripting Languages, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-05-30

Twitter gets funding; Now stabilize the patient

Twitter has received $15 million in venture funding, according to Om Malik. Now the fun really begins: Twitter needs to change its architecture on the fly. Om reports that the latest round means that Twitter has raised about $20 million in total VC backing. ...

Tags: Patient, Twitter, Ruby On Rails, Scripting Languages, Web Servers, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Internet, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-05-22

Ruby on Rails expert: Rails scales; Twitter shouldn't taint Ruby

Ruby on Rails expert: Rails scales; Twitter shouldn't taint RubyRuby and hypeThere is lot of hype around Ruby. But it has not proved itself yet.RE: Ruby on Rails expert: Rails scales; Twitter shouldn't taint RubyAll it takes is a SQL that isn't using primary keys that results in a full...

Tags: Scripting languages, Ruby, Twitter, Ruby on Rails, Ruby on Rails expert

Discussion threads 2008-05-21

Ruby on Rails expert: Rails scales; Twitter shouldn't taint Ruby

Ruby on Rails, a rapid-fire Web development stack, has been under fire of late. Twitter outages have led a fairly loud chorus of folks singing the "Ruby doesn't scale" song. But is it really fair to make the Ruby-Twitter connection, which by the...

Tags: Database, Ruby, Twitter, Rails Applications, Ruby On Rails, Scripting Languages, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-05-21

Taming Ruby on Rails with FiveRuns

According to Gartner, the number of Ruby On Rails developers will grow to some 4 million by 2013. While many of these will be hobbyists, Gartner believes the largest area of growth will be inside the firewall. There's one problem. Until recently, there have not been...

Tags: Developer, Performance, Environment, Ruby, FiveRuns, Ruby On Rails, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2008-03-18

RubyStack (exe)

An installer that greatly simplifies the installation of Ruby on Rails and its runtime dependencies. Ruby on Rails is a full-stack MVC framework for database-backed Web applications that is optimized for programmer happiness and sustainable productivity. It lets you write beautiful code by favoring convention over configuration. BitNami RubyStack application...

Tags: Ruby, BitNami, BitNami RubyStack, Ruby On Rails, Scripting Languages, Software/Web Development, Web Development

Software downloads 2008-01-16

ELC Technologies and FiveRuns join forces for RAD Rails development

ELC Technologies and FiveRuns Corp. are joining forces in a strategic partnership designed to offer enterprises a broad scope of resources for Ruby on Rails, the Web application framework. Both ELC Technologies, Santa Barbara, CA, and FiveRuns, Austin, TX, already have a strong presence in the...

Tags: RAD, Client, Ruby, FiveRuns Corp., ELC Technologies, Ruby On Rails, Software Development, Business Structures, Scripting Languages, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Finance, Dana Gardner

Blog posts 2007-12-12

Ruby on Rails picks REST; no tears for SOAP

In the ongoing contention between SOAP and REST as a Web services protocol, many developers appear to drawn to REST. The latest release of Ruby on Rails, the lightweight development framework which has been growing in popularity, favors REST. According to a report in...

Tags: Ruby, Simple Object Access Protocol, Ruby On Rails, SOAP, Web Services, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Enterprise Software, Software, Joe McKendrick

Blog posts 2007-12-11

Abyss Web Server X1 (dmg)

Abyss Web Server X1 is a free, personal Web server. Despite its small footprint, it supports secure SSL connections HTTPS, CGI scripts, FastCGI, ISAPI extensions, server-side includes SSI, download resuming, caching negotiation, logging, custom error pages, password protection, IP address control, aliases, URL rewriting, custom MIME types, index files, custom...

Tags: Web Server, Web, Anti-hacking, SSL, Abyss Web Server X1, Ssl/Tls, Authentication/Encryption, Web Servers, Network Security, Ruby On Rails, Scripting Languages, Security, Internet, Networking, Software/Web Development, Web Development

Software downloads 2007-11-01

Use Ruby on Rails to create a social networking Web site with full community searching and browsing functionality

Ruby on Rails is fast displacing PHP, ASP, and J2EE as programmers' development framework of choice, thanks to its elegant design and emphasis on practical results. Learn how to build large-scale projects with Rails by developing a real-world application: a social networking Web site like MySpace, Facebook, or...

Tags: Web, Network, Ruby, Web Site, Addison-Wesley, Ruby On Rails, Social Networking, Scripting Languages, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion

Book chapters 2007-10-19

Learning from failure

Another list of seven, this one Derek Silver's 7 reasons I switched back to PHP after 2 years on Rails drew some fascinating comments from its audience over at O'Reilly's. The story itself was about his failure to rewrite an estimated 90,000 lines of PHP...

Tags: Web, Accounting, PHP, JavaScript, Ruby, Web Site, Programmer, Scripting Languages, Ruby On Rails, Web Site Development, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Internet, Paul Murphy

Blog posts 2007-10-05

Abyss Web Server X1 (exe)

Abyss Web Server X1 is a free, personal Web server. Despite its small footprint, it supports secure SSL connections HTTPS, CGI scripts, FastCGI, ISAPI extensions, ASP.NET, server-side includes SSI, download resuming, caching negotiation, logging, custom error pages, password protection, IP address control, URL rewriting, aliases, custom MIME types, index files,...

Tags: Web Server, Web, Anti-hacking, Microsoft ASP.NET, SSL, Abyss Web Server X1, Ssl/Tls, Authentication/Encryption, Web Servers, Network Security, Scripting Languages, Ruby On Rails, Security, Internet, Networking, Software/Web Development, Web Development

Software downloads 2007-09-19

A checkpoint on Web 2.0 in the enterprise, Part 2

A new survey of the personal use of Web 2.0 applications by CIOs emerged late last week and provided another interesting, if high-level, datapoint about the future of Web 2.0 in the enterprise. Carried out by CIO Insight, the survey reported the usual trends like high rates of use...

Tags: Web, Web 2.0, AJAX, Network, Ruby On Rails, Idea, Product, Business, Amazon.com Inc., Semantic Web, Office 2.0, Jury, Dion Hinchcliffe

Blog posts 2007-08-27

JRuby and the Java Platform

This paper gets one started using JRuby and the Java platform. It shows how to set up JRuby, explains the basics of using JRuby scripts with Java applications and the NetBeans integrated development environment NetBeans IDE, and provides links to help a person learn more. Also, the Getting Started section...

Tags: Java Platform, IDE, Sun NetBeans, Java, Ruby On Rails, Programming Languages, Java Development Tools, Development Tools, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Web Development

White papers 2007-06-01

Guide to Ruby on Rails Migrations

Developers are flocking to Ruby on Rails at an incredible pace. There's a great reason for this migration: Rails provides a robust framework built on one of the most flexible languages ever conceived. One of the tricks in the Rails bag is the concept of "Migrations." Migrations provide an excellent...

Tags: Developer, Database, Migration, Ruby, Ruby On Rails, Storage, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Hardware

White papers 2007-06-01

Connecting to Oracle From Ruby on Rails

In the Java world, there are two common types of drivers for Oracle: the pure-Java (a.k.a. thin) driver and the native OCI driver. At the time of writing, no pure Ruby driver, similar to Java's JDBC-based thin driver, exists. In order to connect to Oracle, one needs to install the...

Tags: Oracle Corp., Ruby On Rails, Driver, Ruby, RubyDBI, Ruby OCI8, Ruby OCI8 Driver, Scripting Languages, Databases, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management

White papers 2007-06-01