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Randy Shoup Discusses the eBay Architecture

Community
Architecture,
SOA
Topics
Fault Tolerance,
Design,
Search,
Performance & Scalability,
Enterprise Architecture,
Grid Computing

In this interview from QCon San Francisco 2007, Randy Shoup discusses the architecture of eBay. Topics discussed include eBay's architectural principles, horizontal and vertical partitioning, ACID vs. BASE, handling data inconsistency, distributed caching, updating eBay on the fly, architectural and coding standards, eBay's search infrastructure, grid computing, and SOA.

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Git/Github Roundup: Ruby Books, Gems, Gitjour

Community
Ruby
Topics
Technology,
RubyGems,
Ruby on Rails

Git and Github's popularity increase steadily in the Ruby space. A few Ruby related book projects are now hosted on Github. Gitjour is a new tool using the Bonjour protocol to distribute git repositories. Finally: Github makes it easy to provide gems of projects.

Rails Deployment Roundup: Dreamhost with mod_rails, Capistrano 2.3, Book

Community
Ruby
Topics
Ruby on Rails,
Deployment / Datacenter

Roundup of Rails deployment news, including Dreamhost's announcement of Rails support using mod_rails - after the controversy earlier this year, Capistrano 2.3 release as well as the availability of the book "Deploying Rails Applications: A Step-by-Step Guide".

Phusion Passenger/mod_rails makes Rails deployment easy

Community
Ruby
Topics
Technology,
Runtimes,
Performance & Scalability,
Deployment / Datacenter,
Open Source,
Ruby on Rails

Phusion Passenger/mod_rails makes deployment of Rails apps simple. The Apache configuration is handled by a script and re-deployment is a single 'touch' away. We talked to the creators of Phusion Passenger who also experiment with a modified Ruby Garbage Collector to share memory across address space borders.

Heroku and Morph AppSpaces: two new solutions to Rails hosting

Community
Ruby
Topics
SaaS,
Performance & Scalability,
Cloud Computing,
Deployment / Datacenter,
Grid Computing,
Ruby on Rails

Heroku and Morph Labs are Ruby on Rails hosting providers, offering a complete stack of software and easy to use interfaces to get your applications up and running in a few minutes. We talked to both parties to find out more about their offers.

Rush - OOP shell in Ruby

Community
Ruby
Topics
Scripting,
Linux,
Dynamic Languages,
Deployment / Datacenter

Rush is a new OOP shell written in Ruby. Unlike shells like bash, Rush has commands interacting with objects instead of strings, which allows to use regular Ruby constructs to iterate over files and other objects. Rush goes further with remote shell functionality and more. InfoQ caught up with Adam Wiggins the creator of Rush.

Articles about Deployment

Deploying JRuby applications with Java Web Start

Community
Java,
Ruby
Topics
Compilers,
JRuby,
Dynamic Languages,
Deployment / Datacenter

JRuby is built on Java - so it can make use of Java Web Start to make it easy to deploy JRuby apps. This article walks through the necessary steps for releasing a JRuby app with Java Web Start, including: how to handle signing, setting JRuby parameters and a look at using JRuby 1.1's coming AheadOfTime (AOT) compilation feature.

Enterprise-Ruby Wish List

Community
Ruby
Topics
Ruby on Rails

Francis Cianfrocca asks "What do enterprise developers need, that they're not getting from their tools today?" Based on the answers to that question, he examines whether Ruby currently has anything valuable to offer in the form of an Enterprise Ruby wishlist.

Presentations about Deployment

Mongrel, 2500 Lines, and Economics

Community
Ruby
Topics
Performance & Scalability,
Ruby on Rails,
Programming,
Community

In this presentation @ QCon London, Zed Shaw explains the impact Mongrel's 2500 lines of code have had. He also goes into what makes a project successful (good documentation, make the product is to install and extend, etc) and how companies can get on the good side of open source projects they use.