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Need to Scale Fast? Just Re-Architect it!
The team at Delores Lab talk about lessons learned when their their site was featured on the Yahoo! home page, going from 500 to 100,000 visits overnight!
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Architecting Twitter
The architecture underlying the very popular social application Twitter has been at the center of several discussions lately. Twitter had several instances of downtime and had turned off several popular features as the team tried to deal with the issues. What can be learned from looking at how Twitter tries to move forward?
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Ruby VM Roundup: MacRuby 0.2, JRuby JMX, Ruby 1.9
Work on MacRuby has continued, and now version 0.2 is released, continuing its path to tighter Cocoa and Objective-C integration. The JRuby trunk adds JMX MBeans to monitor the JRuby internals, e.g. the JIT. Also: Ruby 1.9.0-2 and API updates are coming up.
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QCon San Francisco Nov 19-21 Enterprise Software Development Conference Launched
QCon is coming back to San Francisco this November 19-21st, featuring speakers such as Martin Fowler, Eric Meijer (creator of LINQ), Rod Johnson (Spring), and others. Digg.com, Facebook, Yellowpages.com and MySpace.com architectures will be presented. QCon is the conference for enterprise software development team leads, architects and project management.
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Presentation: Mingle: Building a Rails-Based Product
Neal Ford talks about Mingle, Thoughtworks Studios' project management software. Besides Mingle's features, Neal also talks about the experience of building Mingle on both MRI and JRuby, and the plans for making use of JRuby specific features like AOT to improve future versions of Mingle.
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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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RubyFringe Conference - End of registration coming up
The registration period for RubyFringe - a new Ruby conference in Toronto, Canada - lasts only a few more days. The speaker list includes Ezra Zygmuntowicz (EngineYard, Merb), Yehuda Katz (Merb), Obie Fernandez (Hashrocket), John Lam (IronRuby), Chris Wansrath (Github), Damien Katz (CouchDB), etc. We talked to the organizers of RubyFringe about what to expect of the conference.
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Neo4j - an Embedded, Network Database
Neo4j is an embedded network model database for Java, Ruby and Python applications. It is capable of handling billions of nodes/relationships/properties on single machine hardware, supporting ACID transactions, durable persistence, concurrency control, transaction recovery, and everything else you’d expect from an enterprise-strength database.
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Article: Intro to Google Charts and gchartrb
Google Charts is a web service for generating charts. In this article, Matthew Bass explains the Google Charts interface and the gchartrb library which makes easy to create the Google Charts URLs from Ruby code.
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Ruby on Rails 2.1 Released
Ruby on Rails 2.1 was released this past week at the annual Ruby on Rails conference, RailsConf. This year the event was held in Portland, OR and the announcement came as many people expected.
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Ruby VM Roundup: IronRuby runs Rails, Ruby 1.8.7 released, Rubinius inlining experiments
Big news just in: John Lam claims IronRuby runs Rails. In other Ruby VM news, the Rubinius team is experimenting with method inlining. Also: Ruby 1.8.7 has been released.
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GemStone Reveals Plans for MagLev Ruby VM at RailsConf 2008
At RailsConf on Friday, Avi Bryant and Bob Walker of GemStone revealed plans for the MagLev project. MagLev will run Ruby on Rails within GemStone's distributed object technology. The MagLev VM, although only partially implemented, so far outperforms MRI 1.8.
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Releases: JRuby 1.1.2; New Preview of Ruby 1.8.7
JRuby 1.1.2 was released in time for RailsConf - coming with radically faster startup and YAML parsing and many bug fixes. Also: the final Ruby 1.8.7 release approaches. Ruby 1.8.7 preview 4, planned to be the last preview, reinstates the previously removed Symbol#to_proc, and adds Binding#eval, __method__, among some changes in number and date parsing.
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Article: FXRuby: Create Lean and Mean GUIs with Ruby
"FXRuby: Create Lean and Mean GUIs with Ruby" is a new book about the FXRuby GUI library. InfoQ talked to the book's author Lyle Johnson about FXRuby's implementation, threading and more. Also: an InfoQ-exclusive sample chapter from the book.
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The Official RubySpec Website and Its Google Summer of Code Students
The RubySpec project aims to create a complete and executable specification for the Ruby language and recently got its own website. We also talked to two GSoC students who will help improve these specifications.