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Ruby on Rails case study: ChangingThePresent.org

Community
Ruby
Topics
Ruby on Rails

Bruce Tate, author and CTO of ChangingThePresent.org gives a glimpse inside the day to day operations of ChangeThePresent.org with a broad overview of how his team works, the technology trusted for production environments, tools, and most important Rails frameworks.

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RAM is the new disk...

Community
Architecture
Topics
Performance & Scalability,
Data Access,
Clustering & Caching

Jim Gray, a man who has contributed greatly to technology over the past 40 years, is credited with saying that memory is the new disk and disk is the new tape. With the proliferation of "real-time" web applications and systems that require massive scalability, how are hardware and software relating to this meme?

Continuous Integration And Version Control for Databases

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Architecture,
Agile
Topics
Artifacts & Tools,
Modeling,
Agile Techniques

After asserting that one must, as a rule, always version their database work, Scott Allen detailed an approach to making the best of versioning databases. Allen presented a comprehensive, practical approach to creating a baseline, using change scripts to manage schematic revisions, controlling programmatic database objects, and handling branching and merging.

Sun purchases MySQL: Perspectives and Analysis on the Impact

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.NET,
Ruby,
Java
Topics
Web 2.0,
Business,
Announcements,
Open Source,
Community,
Acquisitions

In a move which caught many off guard, Sun Microsystems announced that it would be acquiring MySQL AB, the company which owns and develops the MySQL database, for $1 Billion USD. InfoQ analyzed the announcement and reactions and spoke with Kevin Harvey, Chairman of the MySQL board of directors, to learn more about this deal and what it may mean for the future.

MarkMail Takes Mailing List Archives to the Next Level

Community
Architecture,
Java
Topics
Artifacts & Tools

Late last year MarkLogic rolled out MarkMail, a free service for searching mailing list archives based on their MarkLogic XML content server. Currently MarkMail supports Apache.org, Mozilla.org, PHP and MySQL lists. InfoQ sat down with Jason Hunter of MarkLogic to find out more details on site and where it is heading in the future.

Read/Write Splitting with MySQL-Proxy

Community
Architecture
Topics
Performance & Scalability,
Clustering & Caching

Read/Write Splitting is an innovative use of the recently released MySQL Proxy that implements a master/slave database replication solution. Using this technique, SELECT queries are sent to slave instances, while transactional queries run against the master instance.