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Three Years of Real-World Ruby
Martin Fowler talks about ThoughtWorks's experience with using Ruby on client projects for the past three years.
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The Internal Design of Force.com’s Multi-Tenant Architecture
Craig Weissman, Chief Software Architect at Salesforce.com, presents their multi-tenant architecture, one shared database and one application stack, that has proven to scale well over the years.
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Unshackle Your Domain
Our application runs over 10,000 sustained transactions per second with a rich model. The key? Modeling state transitions explicitly.
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Scaling Hibernate
Emmanuel Bernard and Max Ross talk about patterns and practices used to achieve high volume and scale with Hibernate. They also explains Hibernate Shards and Search to push the scalability limits.
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Merb: When Flexibility and Performance Matter
In this talk, Matt Aimonetti talks about the ideas and concepts behind Merb - and the reasons why it's appealing: speed, modularity and more.
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The Market Risk System
David Harper and Dominique Delarue present the Market Risk System used by BNP to retrieve, store and analyze risk data for all trading activities of their bank.
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Financial Transaction Exchange at BetFair.com
This presentation covers Betfair's efforts, e.g. Flywheel, that enables serving 50,000 low cost transactions per second. This technology has become the basis for the Tradefair financial exchange.
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Digg, An Infrastructure in Transition
Joe Stump, Lead Architect at Digg.com, talks about Digg.com’s architecture, the challenges faced, the solutions adopted, and the lessons learned running a large web site.
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YELLOWPAGES.COM: Behind the Curtain
A look at how YELLOWPAGES.COM, one of the highest-traffic websites in the U.S., was written using Ruby on Rails and scaled to handle the traffic. Also: the reasons for using Ruby on Rails.
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Behind the Scenes at MySpace.com
Dan Farino talks about administering thousands of web servers from a system’s architect viewpoint, detailing on performance counter monitoring, the system profiler and the system administration site.
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Second Life’s Architecture
Ian Wilkes describes the architecture used by the popular game named Second Life at its debut and how it evolved over years as users and features have been added.
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Ian Flint Explains Yahoo! Communities Architectures
Ian Flint tries to explain the infrastructure and architecture employed by Yahoo! to keep going a multitude of servers running of different platforms and offering different services.
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