Displaying 3 results from an estimated 3 matches for "streeteasy".
2005 Dec 29
7
NEW RAILS SITE: Riding two bubbles at the same time
Today we finally opened the doors to "Street Easy" (http://
www.streeteasy.com/), a Real Estate Research Site for New York City.
It was built by two guys in three months. It doesn''t have tags, but
it has google maps. It rides two bubbles at the same time. It''s like
road kill: the price tags will shock you, but you won''t be able to
stop br...
2006 Jul 17
22
Rails - where are the BIG web apps?
Ok, Rails has been out for some time now. I''ve kept an eye on it pretty
closely. I''ve heard Basecamp, Robot Coop, 43 Things, etc. are running
on it. However, those have been the same apps people point to when the
dreaded scalability question comes up. Are there any new web apps
(large scale) in Rails or is it still the same old one? Something like
on the scale of
2006 Jan 12
0
Page caching on separate servers
Has anyone here solved the problem of using page caching while
separating the web server from the app server?
Since page caching requires the app server to write files to disk,
and the web server to read those files, my guess is that the only
solution is to use some kind of network sharing.
NFS comes to mind, and along with it comes a long list of mental
notes that tell me to stay away