I'll be speaking at the Silicon Valley Ruby Conference

Silicon Valley Ruby Conference is a weekend conference, Saturday and Sunday, April 22nd and 23rd in Santa Clara, CA. Considering the rest of the speaker’s I think it’s a reasonably priced at $199-$249.

My talk is

Scale With Rails: Real-life capacity and deployment planning for small to large scale Rails applications.

If you’re coming, please make sure to say “Hi”, I love meeting our peoples.

Abstract

Ruby On Rails is an opinionated framework for developing web applications, and has a considerable amount of flexibility in the back end. While the framework is quite successful in removing the need for developers to worry about many back-end specific things, this separation tends to make issues with deployment, scaling and financing appear at inopportune times. Besides making the critical point that “to scale” means being able to take your application both up and down in size, the talk will cover the full range of considerations in detail: power, space, location, hardware, components, network, operating system(s), development, staging, the choices in web, database and application servers and, most importantly, the cost. The perspective is one that will interest everyone involved in the development, deployment and financing of Rails-based applications.

One example will be the choices made during the building of the Joyent Grid, a highly available, redundant and modular setup that has a determinable QoS, is easily administered and can be right-sized and geographically distributed without issue. This is the shared infrastructure behind all of Joyent’s and TextDrive’s products.

Bio

Jason Hoffman is the CTO of Joyent Inc and was a co-founder, with Dean Allen, of TextDrive Inc. Joyent Inc is a platform software and utility computing company that has a number of online applications and provides infrastructure to a wide range of other projects and companies. Jason has a BS and MS from UCLA, a PhD from UCSD and has backgrounds in cancer biology, bioinformatics, grid computing and collaborative applications

·:· Posted 22 March 2006, 22:00 by Jason Hoffman to Stuff  |  

  1. I’ll be there!

    — Jacob Quinn Shenker    23 March 2006, 14:07    #