First Keynote
A lot of things have happened since I last posted, so I’ll divide them in proper sections.
Codebits
Last week I’ve been to codebits, a major Portuguese event with a lot of talks, workshops and a programming competition. Among other awesome stuff, I’ve had the chance to see Lenz Grimmer doing a talk about MySQL High Availability Solutions - Best practices and commonly used HA setups for MySQL and Lourens Naudé doing a talk about Dynamic Language VMs: Inside Ruby.
It was an intensive week and I learned a lot about many subjects. The important ones according to my Rails optimization context were the ones I mentioned. Both were video recorded and you can check them out at the given URL.
Rails 3
A Rails 3 beta is coming out soon so I’ll be doing some work there as well. Actually, it’ll probably be most of the work on the Rails part since performance was a bit target on this Rails release.
First Keynote
As you probably know, I’m enduring this research on a master’s thesis context. There’s also academic stuff and today I made the first keynote on the subject. It was supposed to be simple, quick, explain the subject, some possible approaches to the problem and a small roadmap. It went well and I was actually able to fit 85 slides in 5 minutes, something I wasn’t sure of. Since we’re talking about performance here, it had to be fast.
Here are the slides.
There’s also a sneak peek on the work scheduling by the end of the presentation, for the anxious ones.
Where are we headed
Somewhere in December I’ll start doing some benchmarking, configuration and tweaking on some major server-oriented operating systems and webservers - using a proper machine. Until then, I’ll cover some issues in a few articles I have up my sleeve. Stay tuned.
