- Topics
- Performance & Scalability,
- Architecture
Adam Wiggins believes that now is the time of horizontal scalability achieved by using resources that are transient, shardable and share nothing with other resources. He gives as example several applications and a language: memcached, CouchDB, Hadoop, Redis, Varnish, RabbitMQ, Erlang, detailing how each one applies those principles.
- Topics
- Operations,
- Cloud Computing,
- Ruby,
- Monitoring Tools,
- Deployment / Datacenter,
- IDE,
- Architecture
Adam Wiggins explains the experience with building Heroku on top of Amazon EC2, the pros and cons of virtualization, and the importance of automation.
- Topics
- RubyGems,
- Runtimes,
- Ruby on Rails,
- Architecture,
- Performance & Scalability,
- Ruby
Heroku's Adam Wiggins talks about how Heroku, Add-Ons, Ruby, and how Heroku manages to work around Ruby's inefficiencies using Erlang and other languages.
