Posted by matt.overstreet, Wed Mar 24 12:22:00 UTC 2010

Meeting Details

Date: Monday, 19 April
Time: 6:30 – 8:00 PM
Place: Tuckahoe Public Library

[Please let us know here or on the Google Group if you are planning on attending ASAP so we can find an appropriate space. Thanks! -matt]

Rails Can’t Scale!

Abstract:

Learn about what it takes to make popular applications like Basecamp, Campfire, Highrise, and Backpack run. If you’ve ever been curious about whether Rails can really scale or not, this is your chance to find out!

We’ll take a trip down memory lane with a discussion about what the current infrastructure for 37signals applications looks like today versus three years ago. We’ll go into detail about some of the decisions that were made along the way, both good and bad, and talk about what the future holds.

We’ll finish up with a whirlwind tour of some of Mark’s favorite tools and technologies. Things like HAproxy, Chef, MySQL, Erlang, and friends.

Hopefully we’ll leave plenty of time at thend for Q&A, since that’s the best part anyway.

Bio:

Mark is a System Administrator at 37signals where he works very hard to make it so that he gets woken up by broken things as seldom as possible.

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