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Sun's Garbage First Collector Largely Eliminates Low Latency/High Throughput Tradeoff
In a recent podcast, James Gosling talked to Danny Coward about the significance of Sun's new Hotspot garbage collector Garbage First for developers of large-scale enterprise systems.
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Beyond Continuous Integration: Continuous Deployment
The sooner that a feature gets into production, the sooner it starts adding value. The quicker a system can change in response to user feedback, the easier it is to keep the users happy. Timothy Fitz and Joe Ludwig have recently published articles that describe practical implementations of continuous deployment, a process that reduces the release cycle from weeks to minutes.
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Ruby Deployment Roundup: Vlad 1.3, Capistrano Maintenance Handover
The recent announcement Jamis Buck is ending development of Capistrano has left many wondering the future of this deployment tool. The release of Vlad 1.3 gives others hope as an alternative.
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Chef Configuration and Provisioning Tool Announced
Chef, a new Ruby-based configuration and provisioning tool, has been announced. Chef offers integration with multiple tools and platforms across extended networks, using "cookbooks" to define how to install and update applications across large networks like large web server farms, or cloud-computing platforms.
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Architecting for Green Computing
Green computing is becoming more and more important every day. System architects need to take into account energy consumption and to find ways to reduce it through: system virtualization, server consolidation, smart unit positioning in data centers, and others.
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Ruby and Rails Software Stacks Overview
A growing number of fully fledged software stacks for Ruby is available, providing all the necessary software you need to run an application, including web and database servers. They come in different flavors: virtual machine images, Amazon EC2 images and installer based. We take a look at some of them to give you an overview.
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Engine Yard Closes $15 Million in Series B Financing
Investment from New Enterprise Associates, Amazon.com, and Benchmark Capital to help company keep position as leading Rails in cloud provider.
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Presentation: The Design and Architecture of InfoQ
InfoQ.com is a next generation web portal combining the latest advancements in portal technology and web development. In this presentation, Alexandru Popescu and Floyd Marinescu walks through the good, the bad, and the ugly of building InfoQ.com; from initial (lack of) requirements, designs, implementation choices, and deployment issues, and all the lessons learned along the way.
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Vertebra: EngineYard's Next Generation Cloud Computing Platform
At RailsConf 2008, Ezra Zygmuntowicz announced Vertebra, a next generation cloud computing platform that builds on Erlang, Ruby and XMPP. We talked to Ezra to learn about Vertebra, which will soon be open sourced.
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Defining Cloud Computing
The term "cloud computing" has shown up everywhere from the Web 2.0 conference to the enterprise architecture whiteboard sessions in big companies to the laptops of startup developers. The big question being asked now is "what is cloud computing?"
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Rails Deployment Roundup: Dreamhost with mod_rails, Capistrano 2.3, Book
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".
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JavaOne: Garbage First
In a JavaOne presentation, Sun Microsystems’ Tony Printezis provided more details on Garbage First, a replacement for the CMS garbage collector particularly targeted at long running server applications.
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Phusion Passenger/mod_rails makes Rails deployment easy
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.
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Heroku and Morph AppSpaces: two new solutions to Rails hosting
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.
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RubyGems: 1.1.0 released, now works on Rubinius
RubyGems 1.1.0 was released with performance updates and other features. In other news: RubyGems now works on Rubinius.