The guys discuss some of the tools & services they use in their daily work, and what they think is important to have in your arsenal to really inform your development work – especially in a cloud computing environment.
Ryan and Adam discuss how scalability and performance really emerge from a strong focus on understanding and implementing the correct solution to common application design problems. This goes straight to the essence of what we like to call stack curation. By providing a fully managed, state-of-the-art application stack we aim to replace the hurdles of tedious configuration and maintenance that often keep developers from doing things the right way with the first truly provisionless hosting env...
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Adam goes into detail about the core vision behind the concept of instant deployment, and how Heroku is committed to making the deployment of Ruby web apps a seamless extension of an agile development workflow.
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 for cloud-based apps.
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’ll figure out how to visualize our httperf results in a graph, and finally take a brief look at a few other Load Testing tools you might want to get familiar with.
Welcome to the Scaling Rails Screencast Series produced by Gregg Pollack and supported by New Relic.
In the next few weeks we’re going to bring you 13 educational videos, teaching you just about everything you need to know to create a Rails application that can scale
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Before we can talk about Server-side performance, we need to go over Client-side performance. We’re talking about how fast your website comes up in a user’s browser.
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Ruby on Rails comes with several caching mechanisms out of the box, starting with Page Caching. In this episode we show how to implement Page Caching in a simple blog application.
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When you start caching html content which depends on data in your database, what happens when that data changes? You’re going to need to expire that cache, and in this episode, we show you how Rails makes this quite easy.
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Before you attempt to Scale your Rails application, you need to know where and how to scale it. This is where New Relic’s RPM service comes in. In this screencast we’ll show you how easy it is to setup, and how useful it can be to monitor your Rails app.
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