ritcheyer In November I was given the honor of speaking at RubyConf Uruguay 2011. If you have a chance in 2012 to go to a conference I would highly recommend heading to South America. All the countries work together to setup a conference tour so you can start in Chile or Colombia and work your way down to Argentina and Uruguay. The Uruguayan conference organizers are amazing. Big props to Evan, Nicolás, Pablo and the rest of the crew.
Caching is extremely useful to implement for web applications. While it can be a good idea for the majority of web applications to utilize caching, there are times where caching is unnecessary and can be a time sink for developers. When is it a good idea to use caching? When an application is getting a lot of requests and New Relic detects a strain on your instances, it’s probably time to look into caching. There are a few different types of caching and some good resources to help decide which type is best for your application. We will look at memory caches using Memcached or Redis, and HTTP caches such as Varnish and Rack::Cache. If you are using Rails you can easily use its built-in caching. Check out the Rails Guide Caching with Rails for an overview. ###Redis Redis is a key-value store. With Redis, your data is held in memory and will be persisted to disk if necessary. This allows it to be useful for caching purposes. Redis is used by companies such as GitHub, craigslist, and here at Engine Yard.
from flickr user miss_rogue We have revamped our documentation and rolled out [Engine Yard Docs 2.0](http://docs.engineyard.com/)! We wanted to make sure our documentation was as up-to-date and easily maintainable as possible. We researched several different options for changing our documentation. Our conclusion: if we use Git to store our code and handle our revisions, why not do the same with our documentation? So, we decided to use Gollum and Gollum-Site to create our documentation. After listening to Jacob Kaplan-Moss's CodeConf talk about Writing Great Documentation I felt confident that this was the right path for us to take. As Jacob said "Great documentation is written by great developers." Now our awesome developers have an easy way to help maintain our documentation.
This week on Cloud Out Loud we interview [Josh Knowles](https://github.com/joshknowles), NYC Rubyist and Managing Director of Pivotal Labs New York. We discuss [Gotham Ruby Conf](http://goruco.com/) (GoRuCo), the New York Ruby conference that Josh helps put on. Josh also tells us that he might try and convince one of the other organizers to dress up like Batman this year to reiterate the theme of the event. We also cover the hiring process at Pivotal, and the reasoning behind their interview methodology. Then Dr Nic goes off on a tangent about the E3 Visa arrangement between Australia and the US. If there are any amazing Australian Rubyists out there that want to come work in San Francisco or anywhere else in the US, then they should really take advantage of it. Load Podcast Some interesting stuff to check out:
- tab1:
- cd ~/foo/bar
- gitx
- tab2:
- mysql -u root)
- use test;
- show tables;
- tab3: echo "hello world"
- tab4: cd ~/baz/ && git pull
- tab5:
- cd ~/foo/project
- autotest
