Sessions at RailsConf 2012 about ZeroMQ

Monday 23rd April 2012

• From Rails Rumble to 50,000,000 results

  by Mikel Lindsaar

  StillAlive.com was born from the 48 hour intense 2010 Rails Rumble and has grown! Having recently passed our 50,000,000th site result, this talk discusses the real world challenges and optimisations required to take a code base born from the fires of YAGNI to a production system.

  This talk isn't about how you can scale from 0 requests to 500 billion requests per microsecond, but give a practical view to some of the performance problems we faced as the application steadily grew from a hack job into a functioning system.

  The journey will go through the mistakes we made, challenges faced and real world optimisations discovered, including some tricks we learnt along the way from concurrent index creation to using the ZeroMQ messaging framework with Rails

  • Ruby on Rails
  • Scaling
  • ZeroMQ

  At 2:30pm to 3:15pm, Monday 23rd April

  In Salon J, Hilton Austin Downtown

  Coverage note video