http://nicholasjon.com/ Sun, 15 Apr 2007 16:14:42 GMT nicholasjon.com :: an rss feed http://www.nicholasjon.com/images/n_ficon.gif http://nicholasjon.com/ http://nicholasjon.com/permalink/2007/4/15/scaling_rails_via_twitter <p>The <a href="http://www.twitter.com/">Twitter</a> folk <a href="http://www.radicalbehavior.com/5-question-interview-with-twitter-developer-alex-payne/">aren&#8217;t pleased with Rails scalability</a>.</p> <p><a href="http://www.loudthinking.com/arc/000608.html"><span class="caps">DHH</span> points out the way their app was configured it was never really going to scale anyway</a>, and that they certainly could improve their performance with more caching and more database servers. He does end on a sort of Rails is open source, you can always fix it yourself note, which is a little disingenuine.</p> <p><a href="http://kasparov.skife.org/blog/2007/04/15/#your-responsibility">Brian McCallister responds to the whole thing</a> with I think the best perspective of all.</p> <p><strong>Update</strong>: <a href="http://magicmodels.rubyforge.org/magic_multi_connections/">Problem solved</a>. (Dr Nic to the rescue.)</p> <p><strong>Update</strong>: <a href="http://revolutiononrails.blogspot.com/2007/04/plugin-release-actsasreadonlyable.html">And again</a>. (This looks really promising.)</p> <p><strong>Update</strong>: <a href="http://drnicwilliams.com/2007/04/12/magic-multi-connections-a-facility-in-rails-to-talk-to-more-than-one-database-at-a-time/">And again</a>. (Dr Nic again &mdash; he&#8217;s good.)</p> Sun, 15 Apr 2007 16:14:42 GMT http://nicholasjon.com/permalink/2007/4/15/scaling_rails_via_twitter nicholasjon@nicholasjon.com (Nick) http://nicholasjon.com/permalink/2006/2/2/open_source_project_to_take_ajax_mainstream <p>I thought Ajax was mainstream?</p><p>Link: <a href="http://www.cbronline.com/article_news.asp?guid=97D640A5-48E2-4078-A131-D7256CA376DC">http://www.cbronline.com/article_news.asp?guid=97D640A5-48E2-4078-A131-D7256CA376DC</a></p> Mon, 30 Oct 2006 20:31:38 GMT http://nicholasjon.com/permalink/2006/2/2/open_source_project_to_take_ajax_mainstream nicholasjon@nicholasjon.com (Nick)