[ANN] August Meeting / Move to Meetup

[Tim Raymond]

Hi BostonRB!

Registration for this month's meeting is now open! We're a little late this month because we're trying something new. We're retiring Guestlist, and we're now over on Meetup at http://www.meetup.com/bostonrb ! Many of you have already found us over there, but for those of you who haven't, you'll be able to join the group when you sign up for the meeting this month. Just like the mailing list, we're requiring you to answer a short question to keep the signal to noise ratio high. Write something brief in there and we'll be happy to add you. You can sign up for this month's meeting here: https://www.meetup.com/bostonrb/events/233166602/

Our talks this month are:

Rack Middleware by Example - Peter Cai

Rack is the foundation of the Rails framework. But what is it, exactly, and why should we care?

In this talk, we’ll cover the design and philosophy of the Rack interface, with an emphasis on Rails middleware. We’ll go through a couple practical use cases with concrete examples, and touch on performance implications for Rails applications.

High Performance Political Revolutions - Braulio Carreno

This talk covers what ActBlue has learned from processing 300,000 requests per minute and 42 credit card payments per second. The original version of the application was written in 2004 and migrated to Rails in 2005; this is 11 years using the framework. Caching is one of the first steps to address performance, and we will discuss how we are using it. But we will cover other topics as well, like software architecture, which is sometimes overlooked, in spite of being more important, because it has a higher impact and is more expensive to correct if done wrong.

As always, thanks to our pizza sponsor (Yesware) and the space provided by Brightcove.

We look forward to seeing you there!

-- Tim