I’ll be doing a half-day tutorial at RailsConf 2007 Thursday morning titled Scaling a Rails Application from the Bottom Up.
The abstract is:
Ruby On Rails is an opinionated framework for developing web applications and has a considerable amount of flexibility in the back end.
While the framework is quite successful in removing the need for developers to worry about many back-end specific details, this separation tends to make issues with deployment, scaling and financing appear at inopportune times.
The tutorial will cover the full range of considerations in detail: power, space, location, staffing, hardware, components, network, operating system(s), development, staging, the choices in web, database and application servers and, most importantly, the cost. The range of costs will be from bootstrap to efficient enterprise. The perspective is one that will interest everyone involved in the development, deployment and financing of Rails-based applications.
The Joyent guys will also be getting a big suite in a hotel by the Oregon Convention Center for a nice series of parties while we’re in town. Long live the fat boys!
Hopefully we’ll see many of you there.
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Sweet, see you guys there!
Sadly, I won’t be able to make it. I leave for Africa just a few days later, and I have too much preparation to do (jmiglavs.com/ejournal). It’s a shame, too, since I’m just starting a project built on RoR.
Anyway, see y’all next time!
Not going, but would love to see/hear it (hint, hint).
I’ll be there, heckling you from the back row.
Jason, I’ll see you there. My co-conspirator (and co-worker) and I are giving a presentation there as well. Ours is on combing Rails and Apollo (the new Adobe tech).
I’ll be in a different tutorial, but a co-worker will be in this session. I’m looking forward to bringing back plenty of ammunition!
I’m excited about this one – see you all there!
I will be at the tutorial, and I’m looking forward to getting fat with you guys! Portland has good beer…see my blog here:http://deadprogrammersociety.blogspot.com/2007/02/railsconf-2007-will-have-good-beer.html
I’ll be there, first time at railsconf and I’m super excited to see your tutorial!
Hey Jason, thanks for the quick email response and we’ll see you there. Compooter may have to ditch his other tutorial and help heckle, er… learn from you too. Our “suite” is also near the convention center but is more postage stamp sized, so we might have to cruise by… I’ll bring some pints.