"Business Benefits of Rail" && "Scaling Rails"
Organized by Igal Koshevoy
Time: Saturday, May 12, 2007 from 2–5pm
Location: CubeSpace, CubeSpace, 622 SE Grand, Portland, OR
Agenda
BarCampPortland is a full day technology community gathering. Igal Koshevoy will make two Ruby-related presentations:
2-3pm: Business Benefits of Rails — An easy-to-follow presentation for business leaders and those interested in getting high-quality custom web applications delivered quickly. No programming experience is expected, this presentation will provide business-friendly, plain English answers to: What is Ruby on Rails? How it can help your business? How you can maximize ROI and avoid pitfalls with it? PDF slides
4-5pm: Scaling Rails Applications — Practical solutions for making Ruby on Rails fast enough for use on high-traffic websites. Discusses tools and recipes used for optimizing performance, clustering, management and hosting. This technical talk is aimed at programmers and system administrators that want to speed up existing Rails applications or want to do so in the future. PDF slides