Cassandra and Ruby

Fri, 27 Nov 2009 17:30:00 +0000

I been speaking about Apache Cassandra database at the Spanish Rails Confenrence 2009.

Here are some photos of the talk:

Rails Scalability

Fri, 23 Nov 2007 12:00:00 +0000

I escaped London for a few days to go to Conferencia Rails 2007 in Madrid. There I gave a talk about much ranted Rails Scalability.

The title of the talk in spanish was “Escalabilidad y las cosas de las que nadie se atrevio a hablar”.

Summary of the talk:

Architecture and typical Rails deployment configurations.
Use of Nginx as a static assets server.
Mongrel and Evented Mongrel.
Multithreaded image Uploads with mongrel and/or merb (instead of attatchment_fu)
Activerecord optimizations (hacks, active_record_context plugin)
Caches, pasive expirations. Cache observing daemons.
Configuration and monitoring of a production Server. (monit, munin tools)

Here is the video of the talk, and of course, the slides.