Sessions at CodeMash 2012 about Scaling

Thursday 12th January 2012

• Metrics-Powered Ruby/Rails Performance

  by Jeff Casimir

  Ruby can't scale. Tell that to LivingSocial, GroupOn, Gowalla, Sony, and the rest of our community pushing millions of requests per day. Scaling an application isn't about piling up hardware and dropping in the newest database fad, it's the combination of design and refinement.

  In this session, we'll look at refining Ruby code using tools to:

  • Measure memory and object allocation
  • Find CPU-intensive hotspots
  • Isolate data-store bottlenecks
  • Evaluate code complexity

  This is not about info-porn. It's about finding the 1% of your code that, through optimization, can dramatically improve performance.

  • Metrics
  • Ruby
  • Ruby on Rails
  • Scaling

  At 3:35pm to 4:35pm, Thursday 12th January

  In Cypress, Kalahari Waterpark Resort Convention Center

  Coverage slide deck

• Massive Scalability for ASP.NET you can Afford

  by Kendall Miller

  The fastest query is the one never run - Using Microsoft Server AppFabric Cache you can dramatically improve the performance of your web / enterprise application without investing in big hardware or complicated programming. We'll take a real-world application with performance issues, add AppFabric cache to it to demonstrate the difference even short term caching can make to your application. We'll then walk through how you can make this effortless using code injection. The code samples will be specific to AppFabric and .NET but the concepts and approaches are common to many application platforms.

  • ASP.NET
  • Scaling

  At 4:50pm to 5:50pm, Thursday 12th January

  In Salon H, Kalahari Waterpark Resort Convention Center