Scaling Rails Screencasts

Within the Rails community, New Relic is a company that doesn’t need any introductions. They are synonymous with performance and reliability, thanks to their RPM product for monitoring, detecting, and fixing Rails application performance problems in real time.

What everybody may not have noticed though, is that New Relic started something called RailsLab, a site in which they publish videos and other useful information about scaling and improving the performance of Rails applications.

The first series, known as Scaling Rails, produced in collaboration with my friend Gregg Pollack, is absolutely impressive. The following is a list of the videos they’ve posted so far (they’re also available through iTunes):

1. Introduction
2. Page Responsiveness
3. Page Caching
4. Chache Expiration
5. New Relic RPM
6. Advanced Page Caching
7. Action Caching
8. Fragment Caching
9. Memcahed
10. Taylor Weibley & Databases
11. Client-side Caching
12. Additional HTTP Caching

I was surprised to see so little mention of these fantastic short tutorials in the blogosphere. These videos are a gold mine of information, which is made all the more better by the fact that they’re entirely free. Do yourself a favor and check out these awesome clips, they’re well worth your time.

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1. Ruby on Rails for Microsoft Developers available for pre-order on Amazon.com
2. Ruby on Rails 2.0 has been released and other Zenbits
3. Putting IBM databases on Rails
4. Great Ruby and Rails books
5. Ruby on Rails at IOD 2008

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One Response to “Scaling Rails Screencasts”

1. José Valim says:

   February 27, 2009 at 4:54 am

   I don’t know exactly why, but until I read your post I was thinking that their scaling rails screencasts were not free.

   Thanks for the tip, as soon as I have some time I will check them.

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2. ADSystems » Escalabilidade com Rails says:

   February 27, 2009 at 5:14 am

   [...] Antonio Cangiano tem razão quando diz que tem muita pouca menção à incrível série de screencasts gratuitos da New Relic. [...]

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3. Notional Slurry » links for 2009-03-10 says:

   March 11, 2009 at 1:15 am

   [...] Scaling Rails Screencasts | Zen and the Art of Programming "I was surprised to see so little mention of these fantastic short tutorials in the blogosphere. These videos are a gold mine of information, which is made all the more better by the fact that they’re entirely free. Do yourself a favor and check out these awesome clips, they’re well worth your time." (tags: Rails RailsLab management performance optimization techniques screencasts scaling) [...]

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4. On Bits » Blog Archive » Escalabilidade com Rails says:

   March 27, 2009 at 12:57 pm

   [...] Antonio Cangiano tem razão quando diz que tem muita pouca menção à incrível série de screencasts gratuitos da New Relic. [...]

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