Earlier this month, Rails Envy‘s Gregg Pollack gave a talk at RubyConf08 called Scaling Ruby (without the Rails). He answered questions like “How do existing Ruby applications use Threads/Processes to scale?”, “How do we implement an Event Driven application using Ruby EventMachine?”, “What are the current bottlenecks with speeding up Ruby and how can they be fixed?”, and “What does Ruby 1.9 bring to the table to speed things up?” From what I hear, it was a very well received and informative session.
Not all of us could be at RubyConf08, however, so Gregg has taken the whole Ruby scalability topic and put together a solid 40-minute screencast called Scaling Ruby (note: it is NOT a recording of the talk—but a separate, professional production). Read More
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