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InfoQ's research initiative continues with the 14th question about "Ruby On Rails State of Practice: Deployment and Management ". This is part of our new service that we hope will provide you with up-to-date & bias-free community-based insight into trends & behaviors that affect enter...
Raffi Krikorian details Twitter’s timeline architecture, its “write path” and “read path”, making it possible to deliver 300k tweets/sec. Bio Raffi Krikorian (@raffi) is the Director of the Applications Services group, the custodians of Twitter's core logic and application infrastruct...
Rails 3.2, released in January 2012, has received regular updates throughout the year – version 3.2.8 was released just a few weeks ago. The Rails/master branch has switched to version 4.0.0.beta last December, and a 4.0 release was tentatively scheduled for Summer 2012. While a new r...
LinkedIn replaced their back-end mobile infrastructure built on Ruby on Rails with Node.js some time ago for performance and scalability reasons. A former LinkedIn team member reacted explaining what went wrong, in his opinion. Kiran Prasad , Director of Mobile Engineering at LinkedIn...
Jamie Wright introduces some of the tools, libraries, and methods used to build a SaaS system in Ruby on Rails. Bio Jamie Wright is President of Brilliant Fantastic, a software development consulting service provider and an ISV for software management applications. He has over ten yea...
As part of InfoQ's ongoing Community Driven Research project, we want to learn more about the best practices in Ruby on Rails usage. In a first round, we are collecting suggestions for the voting options, from which we are then going to pick the most interesting ones and let the commu...
LinkedIn は先日，パフォーマンスとスケーラビリティを理由として，同社のモバイル用バックエンドインフラを Ruby on Rails から Node.js にリプレースした。これに対して元 LinkedIn のチームメンバが，何が問題であったのか，自身の意見を表明している 。 LinedIn のモバイルエンジニアリング担当ディレクタであるKiran Prasad氏は ArsTechnica に対して，LinkedIn ユーザにモバイルサービスを提供する バックエンドインフラを再検討 しなければならなかった理由について説明した。モバイルアプリケーションを利用し...
Rails 3.2 は 2012年１月のリリース以来，年間を通じて定期的なアップデートが続けられてきた - そして数週間前，バージョン 3.2.8 がリリースされた。Rails/master ブランチは昨年の12月，バージョン 4.0.0 beta 用に切り替えられている。4.0 のリリースは 2012 年夏というのが 当初の予定だった 。その後もリリース予定日に関しての新たな発表はないが，全体像は徐々に明らかになってきている – Boston RB で行われたプレゼンテーション では，コントリビュータである Prem Sichanugrist 氏から，Rails...
