DejaVu! You usually say that when you attend the same conference twice 😉 - At Lone Star, its always an new experience. Last year I was an attendee, this year I presented a talk and I thoroughly enjoyed myself. There were an awesome selection of talks and more importantly, the sequence of talks was thought … Continue reading Lone Star Ruby Conference 2010
Author: Gautam Rege
Rubyist, Entrepreneur and co-founder of Josh-Software - one of the leading Ruby development shops in India.
Load Testing and Setting Benchmarks
A lot has been said about load testing and performance testing already -- I do not intend to repeat the dose. However, I have found that there is indeed very little information about what is a good test for load and performance. Services like NewRelic are awesome but they will monitor performance and the ideal … Continue reading Load Testing and Setting Benchmarks
Video encoding with Encoding.com and Rackspace Cloudfiles
We have been working with a couple of media centric web-portals which require video encoding, storage and streaming. Initial guidance and research showed us a couple of successful approaches: Heywatch! with Amazon S3 / Amazon CloudFront encoding.com with S3 / Cloudfiles / Limelight CDN solution After some deliberation and talks we finally settled on encoding.com … Continue reading Video encoding with Encoding.com and Rackspace Cloudfiles
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