The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2012 annual report for this blog. Here's an excerpt: 19,000 people fit into the new Barclays Center to see Jay-Z perform. This blog was viewed about 120,000 times in 2012. If it were a concert at the Barclays Center, it would take about 6 sold-out performances for that … Continue reading Review: Looking Back In 2012
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Amazon EC2 and MongoDB configuration for great performance
Sometimes, we prefer using Amazon EC2 directly for our Rails stack. No offense to Heroku but we need a more controlled environment; and no offense to EngineYard as they don't support MongoDB on their environment as yet. We were faced with several problems that we wanted to solve Control our environment without MongoDB hogging all … Continue reading Amazon EC2 and MongoDB configuration for great performance
Ramblings on RailsRumble
Just when you think you are "too old for this shit" (ref. Lethal Weapon), there comes an opportunity that gets you back in action. In my case, it was Rails Rumble!! When I told my folks at home - "I'm going to be a 19 year old again and do a 48 hour coding stint" … Continue reading Ramblings on RailsRumble
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