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Selling Friends: Scaling a High-Traffic Rails Application
At the recent Silicon Valley Ruby Conference, Friends for Sale developer Alex Le outlined the approach they've taken to scaling up to deliver an impressive 300 million page views per month for their Rails-based Facebook application. continue...
Tim Bray: Ruby is the Leading Language for Web Applications
In his keynote talk at the recent Silicon Valley Ruby Conference, Sun's Tim Bray asserted that "PHP and Ruby are the languages of choice for new web apps." Coming from most people, this wouldn't be a remarkable comment, but given that Tim is Sun's director of web technologies, it is worthy of note. continue...
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