Rails in the Large: How Agility Allows Us to Build One Of the World's Biggest Rails Apps
Neal Ford shows what ThoughtWorks learned from scaling Rails development: infrastructure, testing, messaging, optimization, performance.
Tracking change and innovation in the enterprise software development community
Posted by Kaz Tajima and Mirko Stocker on Jul 03, 2008
This is the second part of InfoQ's RubyKaigi 2008 coverage, for the first part, see the discussion with Matz.
Yukihiro "Matz" Matsumoto expressed his intention to standardize Ruby. The aims of the standardization are to improve the compatibility between different Ruby implementations like JRuby and IronRuby and to ease Ruby's way into the Japanese government, which in 2007 announced guidelines to use open standards rather than specific products. Matz plans to hand in the standard to the ISO (International Organization for Standardization), however, a concrete date has not yet been determined—only that it will "at least take a couple of years for standardization".
On the second day of the conference, Koichi Sasada—the developer of YARV—unveiled the roadmap for Ruby 1.9x and announced his plans to release the stable version 1.9.1 by Christmas 2008. The currently available Ruby 1.9.0 was always intended to be a development release, whereas 1.9.1 is planned to be the first stable release from the 1.9 series, and therefore to be used in production. On the same day, the updated versions 1.9.0-2, 1.8.7-p22, 1.8.6-p230, and 1.8.5-p231 were released too.
The roadmap for 1.9 is shown below:
Koichi Sasada also talked about possible features that might get implemented in future versions of Ruby.
Lean development governance whitepaper by Scott Ambler and Per Kroll
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Neal Ford shows what ThoughtWorks learned from scaling Rails development: infrastructure, testing, messaging, optimization, performance.
Stuart Halloway discusses Clojure and functional programing on the JVM in depth, and touches on the uses of a number of other modern JVM languages including JRuby, Groovy, Scala and Haskell.
Orion Henry and Blake Mizerany talk about the technology behind Heroku and the benefits of the new add-on system.
Chris Riley presents security issues threatening service based systems, examining security threats, presenting measures to reduce the risks, and mentioning available security frameworks.
This talk investigates technical issues encountered when moving to an Agile process.
Don Box and Amanda Laucher present “M”, a declarative language for building data models, domain models or external DSLs. Don Box's demos show some of M’s features and latest changes of the language.
It is four months since the SOA manifesto was announced; InfoQ interviewed the original author’s to get insight into the motivations and the process behind the initiative.
This article explains the impact memory barriers, or fences, have on the determinism of multi-threaded programs.
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