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2006 Nov 13
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Rails Camp Scaling Session notes
...depend on remote
services with varying response time.
Nonetheless Rails is still attractive because of its elegance and
expressiveness. But keep your eyes open.
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What scale applications on the Engine Yard site?
* terminology: ‘slice’ is a virtual xen server – around 30req/second
* theballot.org – Ran on 2 slices. 1Gb/second of traffic. They ran
on $20/month hose before then.
* kongregate – Flash game distribution site. 3 slices now. Deploying
several times a day. They plan for 67 boxes by next summer.
* They have made scaling easy, to levels equivalent to basecamp.
Scaling s...