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YELLOWPAGES.COM: Behind the Curtain
Presented by
John Straw
on
Mar 12, 2009
Length 00:55:00
- Sections
- Development,
- Architecture & Design
- Topics
- Performance & Scalability ,
- Architecture ,
- Java ,
- Ruby ,
- Ruby on Rails
- Tags
- Scalability ,
- Ruby on Rails ,
- QCon San Francisco 2008 ,
- Rails ,
- QCon
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Summary
This talk explains how YELLOWPAGES.COM, one of the highest-traffic websites in the U.S., was written using Ruby on Rails, how it was scaled to handle the traffic and how the software architecture evolved. Also: the reasons for choosing Ruby on Rails.
Bio
John Straw led the development team which pulled off the YELLOWPAGES.COM Big Rewrite.
About the conference
QCon is a conference that is organized by the community, for the community.The result is a high quality conference experience where a tremendous amount of attention and investment has gone into having the best content on the most important topics presented by the leaders in our community. QCon is designed with the technical depth and enterprise focus of interest to technical team leads, architects, and project managers.
This talk explains how YELLOWPAGES.COM, one of the highest-traffic websites in the U.S., was written using Ruby on Rails, how it was scaled to handle the traffic and how the software architecture evolved. Also: the reasons for choosing Ruby on Rails.
Bio
John Straw led the development team which pulled off the YELLOWPAGES.COM Big Rewrite.
About the conference
QCon is a conference that is organized by the community, for the community.The result is a high quality conference experience where a tremendous amount of attention and investment has gone into having the best content on the most important topics presented by the leaders in our community. QCon is designed with the technical depth and enterprise focus of interest to technical team leads, architects, and project managers.
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performance
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Dorel Vaida
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Re: performance
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João Vieira da Luz
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Re: performance
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Frank Falkenberg
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very disappointed
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Bruce Goldstein
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Volume isn't all that high
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peter lin
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a list of things you can do wrong...
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Stefan Frank
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Re: Volume isn't all that high
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Samyem Tuladhar
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How is it to give a presentation based on a site that is totally down as I am watching the presentation and trying to access it ?
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I'm trying to access to this site... and again is down :)
That's ruby on rails :)
Java is not bad the consultants that wrote the earlier site were bad consultants.
What a bunch of misconceptions about Java. -
Does anybody know the reason for the outage? I guess it is not because of Rails.
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A system with one database connection and they can not use Apache due to performance. I am pretty unimpressed. And they do not use Java because it does not make pretty urls? I was hoping this would be a reason to use ruby but it was more about how sad ATT is at development.
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Having worked at a superpages.com a few years back, the volume doesn't impress me. Back in 2002 superpages.com was handling 10million+ pageviews a day and it used tomcat. Today it handles a lot more than that per day using a well thoughout architecture. If the talk was suppose to show how impressive ROR is or can be, I'm not impressed.
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Maybe he should have looked up in yellowpages.com a person who actually knows how to build something like this. It's one of the "I don't have a clue of java/jee - let's move on to something else I don't have a clue of." I especially like the part about the crap-machines they bought from another company that has gone broke... and the "architecture"-pictures are great, all lines and smoke...
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And also I am surprised that they didn't write the search component in-house for a website centered around search!
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