RailsLab
By New Relic, Inc.
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Podcast Description
This site has been created to give you a source for Rails application performance expertise. A place you can visit often to learn the techniques of the performance masters. Learn how to get the most from your Rails applications. Add to your own knowledge and share what you have learned with others. We welcome submissions, suggestions and ideas. To get the most out of RailsLab, subscribe to our feeds so you are alerted when new content is added. Enjoy RailsLab.
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| 1 | VideoMark Imbriaco, 37signals | We caught up with Mark Imbriaco, Operations Manager at 37signals at DevOpsDays. 37signals is the successful developer of project management and collaboration tools founded by David Heinemeier Hansson and Jason Fried, based in Chicago. In this interview w | 6/30/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 2 | VideoYehuda Katz & Justin George Talk Rails 3 | Yehuda Katz from the Rails core team and New Relic’s own Justin George talk about what’s new in Rails 3. They begin with an overview of current and planned performance improvements, then follow up with a discussion of how instrumentation̵ | 6/8/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 3 | VideoEpisode #21 - On The Edge - Part 3 | This is the last of three screencasts where looking at a couple new libraries to help you scale your Rails applications. In this episode we start by learning about rubber, a capistrano/rails plugin that makes it easy to deploy/manage/scale on Amazon EC2. | 10/23/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 4 | VideoEpisode #20 - On The Edge - Part 2 | In this screencast we discover what typically causes Ruby server memory bloat, namely instantiating too many ActiveRecord objects. Thankfully there are several plugins which can help you detect when your application needs some help, and where your applic | 10/23/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 5 | VideoEpisode #19 - On The Edge - Part 1 | This is the first of three screencasts where we begin to look at a few new Rails libraries to help you scale your Rails applications. In this first episode we take a look at Bullet, which will help you optimize your SQL queries by giving you growl notifi | 10/23/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 6 | VideoWebinar Replay: Optimizing Your Online Store for the Holidays | In this session Brian Doll, manager of software development at Sheet Music Plus, the nation’s leading online provider of sheet music, shares his tips on preparing your site optimal application performance, capacity and scalability during the peak s | 9/25/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 7 | VideoWard Cunningham, AboutUs.org | Ward Cunningham of AboutUs.org shares his thoughts on Agile development and the need to compliment the use of specific tools and processes with mastery of development techniques. Play Video (78.6 MB, 6:50, MPEG-4) | 9/15/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 8 | VideoWebinar Replay: Using Apdex to Improve Online Customer Satisfaction | In this fast-paced, 30-minute session Peter Sevcik, founder and executive director of the Apdex Alliance, provides an overview of Apdex, an open standard for reporting, benchmarking, and tracking application performance. New Relic consultant Steve Hudson | 8/31/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Lior Shiff, Product Madness - pt. 2 | In part two of his discussion, Lior Shiff of Product Madness talks about the benefits of developing in Rails including, ease of use, maintainability, scalability. The talk concludes with an overview of effective development, testing and monitoring tools. | 8/25/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Lior Shiff, Product Madness - pt. 1 | Lior Shiff, CEO and Founder of Product Madness, discusses the benefits and challenges of developing social applications in dynamic, rapidly changing environments. He also shares valuable advice for Facebook developers. Part One: Introductions + Developin | 8/25/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 11 | VideoJesse Proudman, Blue Box Group - pt. 1 | Listen to Jesse Proudman of Blue Box Group offer insights and advice for companies deciding whether to move to a Cloud-computing environment. Topics include: To Cloud or Not to Cloud Top 3 considerations for moving to the cloud Key security and complianc | 8/25/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 12 | VideoJesse Proudman, Blue Box Group - pt. 2 | Listen to Jesse Proudman of Blue Box Group offer insights and advice for companies deciding whether to move to a Cloud-computing environment. Topics include: To Cloud or Not to Cloud Top 3 considerations for moving to the cloud Key security and complianc | 8/25/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 13 | VideoAdam Wiggins and Ryan Tomayko, Heroku - pt. 1 | An interview in 3 parts with Adam Wiggins and Ryan Tomayko of Heroku from their recent visit to New Relic. They discuss the vision behind the creation of Heroku, their passion for helping developers create scalable, high-performance Rails apps in the clo | 8/25/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 14 | VideoAdam Wiggins and Ryan Tomayko, Heroku - pt. 2 | An interview in 3 parts with Adam Wiggins and Ryan Tomayko of Heroku from their recent visit to New Relic. They discuss the vision behind the creation of Heroku, their passion for helping developers create scalable, high-performance Rails apps in the clo | 8/25/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 15 | VideoAdam Wiggins and Ryan Tomayko, Heroku - pt. 3 | An interview in 3 parts with Adam Wiggins and Ryan Tomayko of Heroku from their recent visit to New Relic. They discuss the vision behind the creation of Heroku, their passion for helping developers create scalable, high-performance Rails apps in the clo | 8/25/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 16 | VideoEpisode #18 - Scaling Your Database - Part 2 | In this second screencast we start out by learning the differences between the myISAM and InnoDB database engines for MySQL. Next we learn how to scale a write heavy database by using Master Master replication, and how we might configure this to wo | 7/24/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 17 | VideoEpisode #17 - Scaling Your Database - Part 1 | If the bottleneck of your application is your database even after caching as much as possible, what can you do? This is the first of two screencasts where we’re going to learn about techniques for increasing the power of your Database. In this firs | 7/16/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| Total: 17 Episodes |
