Eastmedia's Matt Pelletier presenting two talks at Voices That Matter conference in Boston
Matt Pelletier, Director of Technology at Eastmedia, will be presenting two talks at the upcoming Voices That Matter conference in Boston from November 17-20, 2008.
The Voices That Matter: Professional Ruby Conference is brought to you by Pearson Education, the team behind Addison-Wesley's Professional Ruby Series. Like the book series, the conference will provide practical, people-oriented and in-depth information about using Ruby and the Rails platform to create dynamic technology solutions.
The first talk, Introduction to Mongrel, will serve as an overview of Mongrel, the most popular way to run Rails applications.
Mongrel is a small, fast, mostly Ruby Web server used to run Rails applications in development and in production. It snaps neatly into the LAMP-style architecture and it works well with front-end Web servers like Apache and Nginx. Mongrel is also capable of handling all kinds of custom tasks, with or without Rails. You will learn how Mongrel works, how it fits into your deployment stack, and how it can be easily extended to serve custom requirements.
The second talk, Rails Scales! How?, will address one of the most common cited reasons to avoid Rails: "it doesn't scale".
Rails has earned its reputation as a modern, professional, rapid-development framework, but it also suffers from accusations that "it doesn't scale." This talk will clear up (with examples and facts) the Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt surrounding such claims. You will learn about modern definitions of scaling and performance, where Rails fits into the full request/response cycle, where the most common bottlenecks come from, and a review of the most common techniques (including query optimization and caching) to performance-optimize a Rails application.
Read about the Voices That Matter Conference or register here.
You can read more about the Conference Presenters at Obie Fernandez's blog.
Matt is a co-author of Mongrel: Serving, Deploying, and Extending Your Ruby Applications with Zed Shaw, and is a contributing author for The Rails Way with the Technical Chair of the conference, Obie Fernandez.