Scaling Rails
Rails is undeniably the fastest path from idea to implementation for web applications, all the more so due to its increasing accessibility to even the most neophyte programmers. This in turn has increased the number of web apps for which scalability is an afterthought, if it’s addressed at all.
What’s the right approach to scalability? Which fundamentals should always be observed? Which ones seem to be ignored most often, and at what cost? Can (and should) any of these be solved within Rails?
We’ll answer all these and more, and hopefully provide a good set of guidelines for building scalable Ruby-on-Rails applications.
People planning to attend this session also want to see:
Bradley Taylor
Rails Machine, LLC
Bradley Taylor is the owner and architect of Rails Machine, a Ruby on Rails focused web application host. With 15 years development experience, he has worked on a wide range of software projects for the web and enterprise server environments. At previous conferences, Bradley has spoken on deployment and data center virtualization. He is also the author of the railsmachine and mongrel_cluster gems.
Ezra Zygmuntowicz
EngineYard
Ezra Zygmuntowicz is a founder and Director of Software Engineering for Engine Yard, a scalable Ruby hosting platform. He has been active in the ruby community for over 4 years with contributions to many open source projects such as Rails, Merb, Rack and Rubinius. He is the author of Deploying Rails Application for the pragmatic programmers and is an active speaker at many ruby and Cloud computing based events.
Jim Meyer
With a career that’s ranged from freelance graphic design to large scale distributed computing systems architecture, Jim Meyer is obviously an advanced case of ADD in search of the next challenging distraction. While he can only blame Ruby and Rails for his sleep deficit dating back to RailsConf ‘07, he’s particularly delighted to join a community where agility is valued, iteration is key, and testing is cool.
Jim is the father of two and husband of one, all three of whom make him a better person on a daily basis.
Kevin Lawver
AOL
Kevin has been with AOL for a decade, most of that as the lead UI developer on AOL’s flagship search product. He’s also spent time consulting, training and acting as the “web standards guy” for one of the largest development organizations at AOL. Kevin recently returned to full-time development as one of the architects on AIM Pages, where he is heavily involved in standards support, evangelism and rapid development.
