Ruby on Servers

I’ve read a few articles about running Ruby on Rails on servers, how to scale the application by creating a good server architecture. Pretty interesting.

The adventures of scaling, Stage 1 (Q&A) – How to switch a multi milion hits per day website from PHP to Rails, the hardware and initial port.
The adventures of scaling, Stage 2 – How to tune the software and architecture to handle the massive load of a huge community.
Killing me softly: Keeping dispatchers alive – Just noticed this post, haven’t read it yet but it sounds interesting.
Robot Co-op Hardware – What kind of hardware Robot Co-op uses to host 43 things and 43 places
Robot Co-op Software – And what software is used to serve all these requests

Other

Jason Hoffman (Textdrive fame) talks a bit how troublesome it can be to buy servers from Sun and HP.

Rails 1.1 is getting closer with release candidate 1 out. This is great, I’ve been using EdgeRails for about a month in WikImum as I’m moving all Javascript-stuff to RJS. Now I can stay with the “stable” Rails release, but I guess I’ll switch to EdgeRails as soon as some cool new feature comes ut. I’m really glad to see that the goals have not been changed for Rails, this is something DHH has been talking a bit about too, that this release only makes the journey towards that goal a bit more pleseant and fun (RJS).