Interesting things happen when you put the words “Agile†and “Architecture†in the same sentence. Some would say that they have nothing to do with each other, others would say that effectiveness in one precludes effectiveness in the other. Still others would say “look, a squirrelâ€, but we’re not going …
Ruby on Rails is not just for creating applications that serve desktop-powered browsers. The framework is also great for creating mobile applications running on everything from the iPhone to more conventional mobile devices. See how. Conference given by David Heinemeier Hansson who is the creator of the web-application framework Ruby …
A heuristic is a method to help solve a problem. It is particularly used as a method that often rapidly leads to a solution that is usually reasonably close to the best possible answer. Heuristics are “rules of thumb”, educated guesses, intuitive judgments or simply common sense. The talk will …
This is the second of two episodes where we learn the basics of Load Testing our web applications. In this episode we take a look at autobench, a tool that automates our httperf load tests, then we’ll figure out how to visualize our httperf results in a graph, and finally …
One way to measure the scalability of your Rails application is to use Load Testing. This is the first of two screencasts where we attempt to give an introduction to load testing and show how to use two of the most basic Load Testing tools, Apache Bench and httperf. http://railslab.newrelic.com/2009/06/23/episode-15-load-testing-part-1
Software plus services represents a new paradigm in the evolution of software architecture. In this session, Mark and Marc will discuss the challenges that the architect faces and look at some of the emerging technologies and architectural patterns that should be in every architect’s toolbox.