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Thorsten von Eicken, RightScale

Thorsten von Eicken, CTO and founder of RightScale, shares his insights on the advantages of deploying in the cloud. Discussion topics include design, implementation, and management considerations for cloud-based apps.

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Adam 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 cloud, taking full advantage of cloud deployment, and their tips and best practices to create a high-performance app.

Tools + Collaboration
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Adam Wiggins and Ryan Tomayko, Heroku - pt. 2

Performance + Best Practices
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Adam Wiggins and Ryan Tomayko, Heroku - pt. 1

Introductions + The Heroku Vision
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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 + Developing for Social Networks
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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.

Part Two: Rails, Architecture, and Scalability. Oh My!
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Yehuda 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 instrumentation–like that performed by New Relic’s RPM Ruby agent–is better enabled in the Rails 3 framework. Lastly, they touch on what users can expect as they make the change from Rails 2 to Rails 3.

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Mark 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 with Mike Malloy, Mark shares some background on his role at 37signals managing the availability and performance of their popular suite of SaaS tools through a period of rapid growth over the past few years. Mark discusses how his team works with the development teams, their experience with cloud deployments, some of the challenges they have faced as well as a few lessons learned. We filmed this outside, so you will hear some wind noise and some chatter from the next picnic table over in the first five minutes, but the noise subsides after a few minutes. Thanks, Mark.

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