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Igvita.com is a blog by Ilya Grigorik about Ruby and other technologies
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Igvita 0-60: Deploying Goliath on Heroku Cedar
Thu, 02 Jun 2011 17:02:41 GMT
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Earlier this week Heroku rolled out a major upgrade to their webstack. The HTTP/1.1 support and the billing upgrades are both great improvements, but the "process model" definitely takes the c... Read More
Igvita Stream(SQL) Event Processing with Esper
Fri, 27 May 2011 17:05:55 GMT
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The growth of both the types and the amount of data generated by servers, users, and applications have resulted in a number of recent trends and innovations: NoSQL, rise of popularity of Hadoo... Read More
Igvita Intuition & Data-Driven Machine Learning
Wed, 20 Apr 2011 18:19:10 GMT
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Clever algorithms and pages of mathematical formulas filled with probability and optimization theory are usually the associations that get invoked when you ask someone to describe the fields ... Read More
Igvita VMware CloudFoundry: Ruby powered PaaS
Thu, 14 Apr 2011 16:42:11 GMT
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Platform as a Service (PaaS) is not a trivial thing to build, deploy, or maintain: first you have to orchestrate all the services internally, then you have abstract all of that work behind a f... Read More
Igvita Life beyond HTTP 1.1: Google’s SPDY
Thu, 07 Apr 2011 16:52:15 GMT
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Tim Berners-Lee rightfully deserves all the credit for his early work around URI, HTTP and HTML. His efforts ultimately led to the official HTTP 1.0 (RFC 1945) specification in 1996, the HTTP ... Read More
Igvita Mneme: Scalable Duplicate Filtering Service
Thu, 24 Mar 2011 17:44:01 GMT
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Detecting and dealing with duplicates is a common problem: sometimes we want to avoid performing an operation based on this knowledge, and at other times, like in a case of a database, we want may want to only permit an operation based on a hit in the filter (ex: skip disk access on a cache [...]
Igvita Goliath: Non-blocking, Ruby 1.9 Web Server
Tue, 08 Mar 2011 19:29:43 GMT
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There are easily half a dozen of factors you need to consider when picking an app server: the choice of the VM, implementation model, performance and memory usage, driver and library availabi... Read More
Igvita New Ruby 1.9 Features, Tips & Tricks
Thu, 03 Feb 2011 17:27:09 GMT
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Ruby 1.9 packs in a lot of new and improved features at all levels: it introduces a few new syntax constructs, the built-in libraries have been updated with hundreds of new methods and classes, it... Read More
Igvita HandlerSocket: The NoSQL MySQL & Ruby
Fri, 14 Jan 2011 16:49:45 GMT
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The end of an architectural era, time for a complete rewrite? Is it really the case that by attempting to be a "one size fits all", the RDBMS "systems of the past" excel at nothing? The Cambrian... Read More
Igvita Beyond Ruby: Mirah, Reia, Rite
Tue, 14 Dec 2010 18:42:13 GMT
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Programmer productivity and fun are both core design goals behind the Ruby language. Matz has always placed high emphasis on both in his interviews, and by all accounts, his philosophy and the uptake of... Read More
