…towns. What's the Difference between Austin and San Francisco? :
Austin offers you more options, but greater variety means that, on the whole, Austinite's don't focus as intensely as in San Francisco. Austin's defining characteristic (part of it's slacker culture) is a belief that intensity isn't always the best thing. Austin believes in variety and moderation. This affects the startup community. Austin, the city, will let you pick and …
- Engine Yard Developer Blog: Let's talk about OpenHack
- High Scalability: Sponsored Post: Surge, BioWare, Tungsten, deviantART, Aconex, Hadapt, Mathworks, AppDynamics, ScaleOut, Membase, CloudSigma, Man
- Giles Bowkett: Protip: Buy Art
- Lessons Learned: The Lean Startup SXSW 2013
- carpeaqua by Justin Williams: 360iDev Austin Slides: Selling Your iOS App
- giant robots smashing into other giant robots: The best design books I read this year (that weren't about web design)
You lose your entire SAN and all your DB servers were located there. Let's hope your backups are somewhere else!
You lose a PSU or network switch in your datacenter and some or all of your servers go down in that location
Your entire datacenter loses power and the generators do not start, which happens more often than you might think
What tools do we use in Remote DBA?
We have these major components:
Percona XtraBackup for MySQL for binary backups
mydumper for logical …
- JJinuxLand: Trip to "reflections projections|2012"
- Engine Yard Developer Blog: Orchestra Elastic Apps For Everyone
- Luigi Montanez: Developer Happiness and MongoDB
- High Scalability: Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For February 29, 2013
- Tammer Saleh: Bushido
- 41 technologies: Building a Ruby on Rails application in a week
…published back in 2001, as well as her 1999 essay, How the Internet Ruined San Francisco, which I read prior to moving there to contribute to the ruination.
Strangely enough, there's no Wikipedia entry for Paulina Borsook, even though she's notable enough to warrant her own page. Perhaps the Wikipedians (a rather huffy libertarian bunch, from the sound of them) aren't too keen on her. I'm not the only one who's noticed this recently.
Join us this weekend as we sponsor Rails Girls, San Francisco . The two-day event starts this Friday, January 25 th and will be hosted by our partner Engine Yard at their corporate headquarters.
If you haven't heard of them before, Rails Girls provides a web development workshop that helps women learn Ruby. But its mission encompasses so much more than that. Originally founded in Finland, Rails Girls now how chapters in over 15 countries around the world. …
- Concentration de studioConcentration de studio: Young Manhattanite: YM Intern Friday Playlist
- Katz Got Your Tongue?: Tokaido Status Update: Implementation Details
- Engine Yard Developer Blog: Rails Girls gets girls started with tech in Buenos Aires-with help from Engine Yard
- Rails Inside: How a Realtime SMS Questions Service Scaled To Super Bowl Traffic with Rails
- 80beans: It's almost EuRuKo time!
- Phusion Corporate Blog: Lessons Learned From Bootstrapping a Conference Part 2
Sr. Rails Engineer at VMware Socialcast ( San Francisco)
Socialcast is looking for a passionate, experienced Ruby and Rails Engineer to join our growing Engineering team! Continue your career in a start-up atmosphere focusing on fast experimentation with the latest technologies and frameworks ( Rails 3 and Ruby 1.9).
Ruby on Rails Developer at Litmus ( Remote, anywhere!)
Litmus, the e-mail testing and analytics company, offering a great salary, …
- Plataformatec Blog: Eager loading for greater good
- giant robots smashing into other giant robots: Writing Better Cucumber Scenarios; or, Why We're Deprecating FactoryGirl's Cucumber Steps
- The Pug Automatic: SendGrid metadata and Rails
- A Fresh Cup: What's New in Edge Rails #27
- Viget.com Blogs: A Better Way to Add a ‘selected' Class to Links in Rails
- New Relic: Rails Machine Adds APM from New Relic to its App Management Platform for Rails
If you've been closely watching our blog, you know we're über busy this week. Next up is QCon San Francisco . QCon is a practitioner driven conference designed for technical team leads, architects and project managers. The event features over 80 speakers covering a wide variety of relevant and exciting topics in software development today.
Stop by our table (#8) to see New Relic in action, meet our team and pick up your free Data Nerd t-shirt. On Wednesday, November …
- AkitaOnRails.com - English: QCon Special - Leah Culver (Pownce)
- Jason Seifer: Ruby Interpreter Comparison
- High Scalability: Paper: Netflix's Transition to High-Availability Storage Systems
- CaelumObject Developers' Blog: Hypermedia and the future of the integration over the web
- Ruby Inside: A Video Interview With Ruby's Creator, Matz
- Rowan Hick: Visa on Rails and Beyond
…location, you can't always assume you can simply mount your storage to another instance (thinking SAN failure in the real gear analogy).
Multi Region Replication
The easiest approach would be to use native replication from a master to a slave across regions. This will allow you to keep a relatively in-sync instance in another region ready to take over in the event of a full region outage where your primary server resides. Being asynchronous, there is always a potential for some slave …
Rails Developer at Inigral [ San Francisco]
Ruby Developer at SceneTap [ Austin, Texas]
Ruby Developer, Nature Publishing Group ( London, United Kingdom)
Passionate about technology and science? Come join our team of Ruby developers at the Nature Publishing Group, responsible for the most influential scientific journals in the world for over 140 years.
Software Engineering the Agile Way at Pivotal Labs [ San Francisco]
Rails …
- Signal vs. Noise: 37signals invests in The Starter League
- New Relic: I Don't Always Monitor My Rails Apps, But When I Do I Use New Relic
- A Fresh Cup: Double Shot #914
- Invisible Blocks: Out of Love with Active Record
- Katz Got Your Tongue?: August Tokaido Update
- Phusion Corporate Blog: Why Rails 4 Live Streaming is a big deal
…Los Angeles
8/27: Chef Introductory Workshop for Windows - San Francisco
8/28: Chef Introductory Workshop - San Diego
8/31: Chef Introductory Workshop - San Francisco
We are also offering workshops in many other locations. Click here to see the full list .
We hope to see you soon!
…
PS. In case you haven't noticed my hundreds of messages about it, there's a Lean Startup Conference coming up on December 3-4 in San Francisco . Tickets just went on sale , so book yours before prices go up . For all of my east coast friends who want to make a trip out of it, we've arranged five full days of events starting November 30.
- » Product Launch Blog: Lean Startup Machine: Smarter Entrepreneurs in 55 Hours
- New Relic: Four Years as a Lean Startup & a gift for you!
- Positive Incline: Lean reading marathon
- : Web 2.0 Expo NYC Wrap Up