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New Approaches to Scaling Ruby on Rails Applications
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- Description:
- Various methods for scaling Ruby on Rails web applications, including a new approach called BJAX, which relies on an embedded Flash application in the client's browser to push javascript to the client upon completion of processes running in the background.
- Questions
Answered: -
- Does Ruby on Rails scale?
- What methods are currently in place for scaling web applications?
- Where are the potential bottlenecks in web application deployment?
- Where are the bottlenecks in Rails application deployments?
- Can Flash be considered a web standard?
- Should more processing be moved off the server and to the client?
- When can we expect HTML5 to be in general use?
- Can processor intensive calculations be handled by a web server?
- From an architechtural standpoint, what did Twitter do wrong?
- What is the future of web application development and deployment with Ruby on Rails?
- Level:
- Advanced
- Category:
- New Technology / Next Generation
- Type:
- Panel
- Event:
- SXSW Interactive 2009
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