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A good article about digg’s use of Cassandra

October 29th, 2009 · No Comments

A good article about digg’s use of Cassandra.
http://blog.digg.com/?p=966

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Tags: scaling · web

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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Tags: Rails Plugins · code · rails · scaling

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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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 [...]

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