RailsLab .:. capacityplanning

Application Server Provisioning and Tuning

There’s tons of information out there for Rails developers, but help for Ops teams is seemingly a bit thin. Scaling with hardware is a common approach, however hardware alone cannot scale an application. (It’s also an expensive approach.) Bayard Carlin, New Relic’s Director of Technical Operations, walks us through the steps New Relic made to tune their app servers for maximum efficiency. Bayard presents us with some tips and tricks to maximize the efficiency of your current app servers and continue tuning and tweaking them as your application grows.

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Jesse 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 compliance concerns
Managing performance SLAs
Scaling rails applications
The importance of memcache

Planning and Scaling Rails Deployments
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Jesse 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 compliance concerns
Managing performance SLAs
Scaling rails applications
The importance of memcache

Choosing the Right Hosting Environment
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Webinar 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 season. In addition to providing specific optimization examples, Brian discusses a number of helpful steps in detail. These include: