Jonathan Weiss, Peritor Wissensmanagement GmbH

Jonathan Weiss is a German Ruby enthusiast from Berlin where he is a partner and consultant at Peritor Wissensmanagement GmbH. Besides training and supporting clients in code reviews or architecture he is responsible for developing a Rails based groupware and collaboration suite. In his spare time he maintains Rubygems and Rails in the FreeBSD Ports system. Furthermore, he developed Webistrano, a web UI for deployment management with Capistrano.

Presentation: "Rails on AWS"

Track: Ruby Performance

Time: Tuesday 16:00 - 17:00

Location: Lokale 4A14, 4. floor

Abstract:

Scaling a Rails application from one machine to a couple of dozens or hundreds can be a hard problem for many projects. On tight budget and available manpower this becomes even harder. Luckily Amazon offers several Web Services (AWS) that allow you to focus on the business while Amazon worries about the scaling.

This talk will give an overview of how to utilize Amazon?s Web Services like EC2, S3, and SQS to create a scalable architecture. We will look at several use cases (like user generated content or on-demand application servers) where the Amazon Web Services are leveraged to scale a Rails application.