029 RR Keeping Up with Gowalla




The Ruby Rogues show

Summary: Panel Adam Keys (twitter github therealadam.com) Charles Max Wood (twitter github Teach Me To Code) James Edward Gray (blog twitter github) Josh Susser (twitter github blog) Discussion Gowalla Ruby on Rails Amazon EC2 Postgres Memcached Resque Redis Cassandra Solr Deploy several times a day Anyone with commit rights can `cap deploy production` Feature toggles James Golick's rollout gem Pride in your work Empathy for users Feature branches Adam's blog posts Relentless Shipping Your FriEnemy the ORM The Current and Future Ruby Platform Chronologic - You Put Your Feeds in it Minimum Viable Product Streamlining your feature set Measurements/Statistics Double writes and dark reads New Relic Graphite statsd Eager Loading "Log profusely and get handy with grep, sed, and awk" Picks Quicklook (Josh) qlmarkdown (Josh) Occupy Wall Street (Josh) Learn of the command line tools in linux (James) grep (James) bc (James) bc article (James) xxd (James) command line magic on Twitter (James) backbone.js (Chuck) Apache Software Foundation (Chuck) Classic Albums - Stevie Wonder: Songs in the Key of Life (Adam) The Promise (Adam) EconTalk (Adam) NPR: Planet Money (Adam) Evan Weaver's Distributed Systems Primer (Adam) Java Concurrency in Practice (Adam) iTunes U: Econ 113 from UC Berkeley (James)