Join The San Francisco Ruby Meetup Group

You'll get invited to our Meetups as soon as they're scheduled!

Scaling Rails

Nov 2008 19

Wed 6:30 PM

Location: Newzwag

16 Maiden Lane
6th Floor
San Francisco, CA 94108

This is a private home or office

Estimated attendance: 38 people attended.
4.508
Who organized?
Bosco So

Thanks to Josh Schwartzman of Newzwag for volunteering to talk and host.

Josh is the lead developer at a SF-based Rails startup called Newzwag. They've recently completed a large amount of work converting a write-heavy quiz app for the Olympics to a lean cached machine. The talk will be about the challenges they faced, and how they were able to get 8x performance gains through plugins, caching and performance testing. Others are also welcome to present their own findings.

Josh is definitely interested in having other people present Lightning (or slightly longer) Talks. Post a comment on this event page to let Josh know what you have in mind. Or email Josh through his Meetup member link.

Photos of this Meetup

No photos yet.

Talk about this Meetup

Who attended?

38 attendees
- Ray Baxter
  
  “ Very good talks, but the turnout was smaller than normal. ”
- Mason Jones
  
  “ This was a good gathering, with a good number of people sharing their experiences, questions, and thoughts. It would certainly be nice to have even more people presenting, in order to get a wider range of experiences, but even with just the one company presenting, it was an enjoyable evening. ”
- Mark Wilden
  
  “ Great presentations. Real in-the-trenches stuff. Great questions from the audience, too. I learned some stuff I'm going to look into tomorrow. ”
- Craig A. Cook
  
  “ Nice presentation. It was, however, about a rather idiosyncratic solution for the presenters' needs. I still took away some knowledge and insight despite this. Thanks to Newzwag for hosting the Meetup and sharing their experience. ”
- barce
- Lance
- Dean
- Noah Thorp
- pablo
- Adam Blum
- Chip Vanek
- farid aliev
- lawrence
- Brian Van
- Matt
- Robert
- Carl Tanner
- Mark Carranza
- Mahyar Rahmatian
- Michael Alderete
- Tim Mesa
- Qiang Wang
- Nat
- Josh
- Marston A, SugarStats
- Janos Mucsi
- Adam Breindel
- stewart
- Matthew Carlson
- Steve
- Nathaniel Meyer
- Tim Burks
- rich
- Trevor Berg
- Yi Lin
- Nadeem Bitar
- Ian
- Stephen