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ruby-lang
March 15th, 2006, 11:30 PM
<p><a href="http://poocs.net">Patrick Lenz</a> has started in on a case study <a href="http://poocs.net/articles/2006/03/13/the-adventures-of-scaling-stage-1">The adventures of scaling</a>, in four instalments, on how he made <a href="http://eins.de">eins.de</a> scale, improving its performance by about 60%.</p>


<p>The online community site was ported from 50,000 lines of <span class="caps">PHP</span> to 5,000 lines of Rails. It serves up over 1 million dynamic page impressions on a “good day”. This first instalment goes through their unsuitable initial setup and explains why it didn’t work, including a diagram of their configuration. As one of the article’s commenters says, “Nothing beats a shiny chart”. Looks promising. Good start. Thanks for the write up Patrick. Stay tuned.</p>


<p><img src="http://weblog.rubyonrails.com/files/adventures-in-scaling.jpg" alt="" /></p>

<a href="http://weblog.rubyonrails.com/articles/2006/03/16/the-adventures-of-scaling-a-case-study" target="_blank">http://weblog.rubyonrails.com/articles/2006/03/16/the-adventures-of-scaling-a-case-study</a>

rob
March 16th, 2006, 12:52 AM
What a wonderful series of articles this is going to be. We're running into scaling issues with some of our Rails apps now, so its always good to see how someone else is coping with things, it always gives you some good ideas.