A good article about digg’s use of Cassandra.
http://blog.digg.com/?p=966
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A good article about digg’s use of Cassandra
October 29th, 2009 · No Comments
Articles about using Delayed Job in Rails
July 23rd, 2009 · No Comments
http://railscasts.com/episodes/171-delayed-job – A good railscast about using Delayed Job.
http://www.therailsway.com/2009/7/22/do-it-later-with-delayed-job – Article by TheRailsWay about why to use and how to use.
It looks like are really simple way to offload long running tasks.
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Another good article from intridea about CloudFront
July 9th, 2009 · No Comments
In this article, Intridea shows you how to use CloudFront and AssetPackager together and prevent stale copies of assets from being served.
http://www.intridea.com/posts/amazon-cloudfront-preventing-stale-assets
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Tags: AWS · Rails Plugins · code · rails · scaling · web
A really good article about setting up and running Cassandra
July 7th, 2009 · No Comments
Here is a really good article about using Cassandra from Evan Weaver.
http://blog.evanweaver.com/articles/2009/07/06/up-and-running-with-cassandra/
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Tags: code · install · rails · scaling · web
CloudFront and Paperclip plugin
July 7th, 2009 · No Comments
A good article about using CloudFront from Amazon and the Paperclip plugin for Rails. http://www.intridea.com/posts/using-amazon-cloudfront-to-serve-assets
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How FriendFeed uses MySQL to store schema-less data
March 2nd, 2009 · No Comments
An interesting article about how FriendFeed uses battled tested technology (MySQL) in new and innovate ways to meet their needs.
http://bret.appspot.com/entry/how-friendfeed-uses-mysql
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Some good tips for scaling a rails app
February 23rd, 2009 · No Comments
http://axonflux.com/building-and-scaling-a-startup
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Rails Way Article: a good post about large file downloads in rails apps
February 23rd, 2009 · No Comments
http://www.therailsway.com/2009/2/22/file-downloads-done-right
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Request per Second measurement
January 6th, 2009 · No Comments
The Rails Way is back with a post about the pitfalls of using request per second measurement when profile and why using request duration may be more useful.
This article made some really good points and I will definitely think about this the next time I am profiling my applications.
http://www.therailsway.com/2009/1/6/requests-per-second
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A good article about MySQL and Rails
August 21st, 2008 · No Comments
This is a very good article about MySQL and Rails and some issues you can run into on high traffic apps. Most of these should be reserved for optimizations when there are issues. But they are good things to keep in mind.
The information about data scheme and indexes is very good think about when designing [...]
