…those transactions every day," says Pascal-Louis Perez , kaChing's CTO. "It took a ton of our time, and it was just wasn't contributing to our long-term vision." That all-hands lasted five minutes.
Which is a nice story. But when kaChing actually shut down each game, hundreds of angry players spewed venom. "We had to ignore them, because they weren't going to become customers," says Rachleff.
kaChing says it had the fortitude to make quick …
…LinkedIn: 120 Billion relationships; 82 Hadoop jobs daily ( IIRC); 16 TB of intermedia data.
Who knew DevOps could be so funny? Adam Jacob, CTO of Opscode, gave a hilarious talk at the Velocity conference on the true nature of DevOps. Warning: your neck may get sore from nodding in agreement so much and your belly may ache from laughing so much.
- Spyced: Cassandra: Fact vs fiction
- igvita.com: Distributed Coordination with Zookeeper
- pingles: MapReduce with Hadoop and Ruby
- Rails Envy ยป Home: Rails Envy Podcast - Episode #093
- paperplanes: June - A Month of Conferences
- Axon Flux // A Ruby on Rails Blog: How Facebook uses Scribe, Hadoop, and Hive for Analytics, Ad hoc analysis, Spam detection and Ad Optimization
…(transactions).
You may find dbShards interesting if you are looking to keep SQL, need scale out writes and reads, need out of the box parallel query capabilities, and would prefer to use a standard platform like MySQL as a base. To learn more about dbShards I asked Cory Isaacson ( CEO and CTO) a few devastatingly difficult questions (not really).
Who are you, what is dbShards, and what problem was dbShards created to solve?
- MySQL Performance Blog: Debugging problems with row based replication
- All About Ruby: Hosting your Rails app - first look at Heroku
- p.latyp.us: Moving to morph: postgres migration.
- Litany Against Fear: Using Berkeley DB and Ruby for Large Data Sets Notes
- Ruby Inside: Rails 3.0 Beta: 36 Links and Resources To Get You Going
- Jake Scruggs: Rails Conf 2010 Day 3
…has made to Opscode Chef." said Javier Soltero, CTO of Springsource Management Products at VMware. " Chef is an important tool for automating infrastructure management and we look forward to its continued growth and success."
Following the public launch, Opscode will continue to focus on growing its partner ecosystem to bring the benefits of Chef to an even wider audience. "At Rackspace, we see more and more demand across our customer base for the type of …
- English - AkitaOnRails.com: Cooking Solo with Chef
- Signal vs. Noise: Basecamp turns 6
- 80beans: Introducing WysiHat Engine
- Luigi Montanez: Liveblogging the Development of Defogger
- Alexey Kovyrin's Blog: DB Charmer - ActiveRecord Connection Magic Plugin
- MicroISV on a Shoestring: The Solo Founder (Startup) Rap
…you how we got to where we are as a company. My co-founder, Jeff Daudel, who is our CTO, and I have worked together for over a decade, most recently at a company called Muse Corporation.
That company was building a very ambitious software project to deliver the next generation of the Internet, including a lot of new technologies like 3D graphics, multi-user browsing, spatialized audio, and video, in a 3D environment.
The idea was that companies like Paramount and Sony that have …
…"career engineering". I was also given the same advice by one of my customers (a young CTO) I encountered while working at IBM. However, I have found describing how to manage a career to past colleagues in this way has been met with skepticism or out right hostility. I happy to see it presented as a legitimate option for those who choose to pursue it.
Another thing I do that past colleagues have determined I am an oddity for doing is to have a spreadsheet evaluating each job I …
- I can't code! Now what?: I'll show you some change you can believe in!
- techno weenie: My Lesson in Bootstrapping
- Engine Yard Ruby on Rails Blog: The Lowdown on Routes in Rails 3
- The Hobo Blog: 1.0RC1 released!
- Giles Bowkett: How Google, 37Signals, Netscape, and Microsoft Set The Stage For The iPad
- Plataforma Tecnologia Blog: Discovering Rails 3 generators
…inclination or knowledge that they've actually paid for a throwaway. Someone down the line, be it the CTO, product manager or even the guys down at the development agency wasn't up front about what they were delivering.
So what happens next? You're in a high pressure situation and you've got your reputation of being a top notch coder with insane skills to protect. You'll either go along with trying to patch the code to make it do what you want until you collapse from …
- terrbear.org: Pivotal Pulse and Integrity
- : High Quality Ruby on Rails Example Applications
- Rail Spikes - Home: Let a human test your app, not (just) unit tests
- Smarticus: 10 developer skills needed in 2010
- Dead Programmer Society: The FutureRuby Revolution Will Not Be On AOL - Part 2
- Lindsay Holmwood - auxesis' musings: Web app integration testing for sysadmins with cucumber-nagios
Fortunately, that is a goal that the new federal government CIO and CTO are working on right now. It's a high priority on their agenda, and I don't think it can happen fast enough. I'm hoping that they do it in a way that is highly successful, and I'm hoping it results in a 90 percent reduction in those data centers in the course of the next decade or so.
You could use that same example across much of the private-sector landscape. Private clouds are going to have a huge …
Ruby Programming Challenge For Newbies
RPCFN: XML Transformer (#8)
By Jamie van Dyke
About Jamie van Dyke
Jamie van Dyke has been using Ruby and Rails since the beginning of 2005, has contributed significantly to the Rails documentation and code base, as well as running his own Rails business and being responsible for building Engine Yard's European support team. Jamie is now the CTO over at Boxedup .
Jamie has this to say about the challenge:
- RubyLearning Blog: Paul Barry Winner RPCFN #8
- RubyLearning Blog: RPCFN: Interactive Fiction (#9)
- Riding Rails - home: Ruby on Rails 2.3.5 Released
- Graceless Failures: Building Thrift Dependencies In Scala with sbt
- CaelumObject Developers' Blog: RESTEasy: Where did the hypermedia go to?
- DevChix: Google Web Toolkit, 2.0
Join us for a Webex Session - Configuring Nagios on AWS with Chef
Friday, March 26, 2010
11:00 am, Pacific Daylight Time ( San Francisco, GMT -07:00)
Come spend a little time with Adam Jacob, CTO and Founder of Opscode, while he demonstrates how to instrument a cloud-based infrastructure with Nagios using Chef Cookbooks. This presentation is an overview and little of no experience with Chef or EC2 is required.
- English - AkitaOnRails.com: Cooking Solo with Chef
- Rails Dog: Generating Thousands of PDFs on EC2 with Ruby
- Edd Dumbill's Weblog: Behind the Times: Speaking about Chef at RailsConf
- Signal vs. Noise: Nuts & Bolts: Configuration management with Chef
- Engine Yard Ruby on Rails Blog: Custom Chef Recipes with Engine Yard Cloud
- BenCurtis.com: A Chef recipe for ProFTPD