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Load Testing Ruby Apps for Black Friday

on October 20, 2017 | By Christopher Rigor
  Is your website ready for Black Friday traffic? Rails is capable of serving a huge amount of traffic. This is already proven. To make sure your Rails application is ready, you should perform load testing and add more servers if needed.
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Dependency Management Guidelines for Rails Teams

on October 5, 2017 | By Brandon Dees
I recently encountered a discussion in a developer chatroom about how to find good ruby gems to use for projects, and how to choose between them. The (currently-defunct, hopefully only temporarily) website ruby-toolbox.com was mentioned, as well as awesome-ruby.com,...
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Content Management in the Cloud

on November 12, 2014 | By Matt Jones
A content management systems (CMS) such as Wordpress, Drupal, or Joomla can make the business of building and maintaining your website much easier. In much the same way as a CMS can take away the hassles of dealing with code, Engine Yard can take away the hassles of...
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Why Your App Won’t Work In The Cloud

on April 23, 2014 | By Noah Slater
There are two kinds of apps for the cloud: ones that work and ones that don’t. The ones that work are called Twelve Factor apps, and they work because they were written specifically for the cloud. We call the ones that don’t work legacy apps. And these are designed to...
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Share Nothing, Scale Everything

on April 1, 2014 | By Noah Slater
In the previous post in this series, we explained how the shared-nothing architecture places additional constraints on cloud app developers. We also explained how embracing these constraints enables apps to have high scalability and high availability.
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Functions, Threads, and Processes. What's Next? Cows

on March 24, 2014 | By Noah Slater
In the previous post in this series, we discovered that setting up a server before you even boot it is not only possible, but gives enormous productivity rewards in a cloud architecture. In this post, we look at the four essential principles of designing your app for...
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Configure Before You Boot

on March 12, 2014 | By Noah Slater
In the previous post in this series, we learned how the pets vs. cattle metaphor teaches us a new way of approaching cloud server architecture. Instead of unique pets which require constant, individual care, we focus instead on cattle which are identical, homogenous...
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Pets vs. Cattle

on February 25, 2014 | By Noah Slater
I was one of the original developers on Orchestra, the PHP PaaS that Engine Yard acquired in 2011. Many of our customers were using PaaS for the first time, having come from very traditional hosting backgrounds. They were used to uploading things to FTP servers and...
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