Add an eventSessions at RailsConf 2012 about Scaling and Ruby on Rails
Monday 23rd April 2012
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Not a Vendor Pitch: Real World Rails Apps at Massive Scale
by Lew Cirne, Pitr Vernigorov, Joshua Warchol, Tim Sturge and Jon Pliske
New Relic CEO Lewis Cirne will lead a panel discussion with representatives from some of today's most popular, highly-trafficked web sites. With millions of uniques a month, find out how these organizations are optimizing their Rails-based sites for mobile, for unexpected traffic bursts, and for seasonality.
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Up and to the right – how Spiceworks is scaling 200 million requests per month
by Francis Sullivan and David Babbitt
Curious how Spiceworks, a social business app built on Rails, keeps 2 million active users happy? With Ruby on Rails, baby! In the last year our usage has increased 8x and now exceeds 200 million requests per month. Join Francis Sullivan, CTO and Co-founder, and David Babbitt, Technical Program Manager, to hear about the architecture and best practices we adopted to make this happen.
Get the ins-and-outs on:
- Hosting a high volume Rails application
- Choosing what to optimize
- Lessons learned while moving to JRuby
- Updating a large codebase through Rails beta to Rails 3
- Scaling the dev organization
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From Rails Rumble to 50,000,000 results
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
Tuesday 24th April 2012
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Preparing for Rapid Growth - Tips for Enabling Your Rails App and Team to Grow Quickly
Every young company expects to grow quickly, but is your engineering team really ready for it? In 3 years, iTriage went from a kitchen table to one of the leading mobile consumer healthcare apps with over 5 million downloads. Staying ahead of this growth didn't just mean hiring more Rails engineers.
Patrick will discuss what iTriage did (and continues to do) to stay ahead of our growth, including:
- Technical architecture, including use of Rails Engines to enable a modular, RESTful service-based design
- Enabling high quality iPhone, Android and Web apps
- Development and release management processes
- Recruiting and hiring approaches
Wednesday 25th April 2012
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Chanko - How Cookpad safely releases multiple feature prototypes for test segments of their 15 million engaged users
by Kenta Murata
Chanko provides a simple framework for rapidly and safely prototyping new features in your production Rails app, and exposing these prototypes to specified segments of your user base.
With Chanko, you can release many concurrent features and independently manage which users see them. If there are errors with any chanko, it will be automatially removed, without impacting your site.
Chanko was extracted from Cookpad.com where the team uses it daily to test new features live, in production, on the largest Rails site in Japan which serves 500 million page views a month to a user based of over 15 million highly engaged uses.