March 2009
5 posts
History Repeating Itself →
1993, meet 2009. Some campaign trail promises, like middle-class tax cuts, may get left on the cutting room floor.
Why is my Rails app so slow on EC2?
If you’re on a small instance, then, congratulations! Your app is CPU bound. Bump that sucker up to a medium if you want to break 40 req/sec.
I spent the last few days bumping my head against this problem with an app that needed to support some seriously bursty traffic. We were running all the latest versions of Rails, Passenger, Ruby Enterprise Edition, and all that jazz on a fresh Ubuntu...
Should Hyperlinks be Underlined? How Linkedin... →
Including a quote from yours truly. If I knew there was a blog post in the work, I might have said something more original. Then again, how original can you be with the question of underlining links? :)
