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Scaling a Rails Application from the Bottom Up
Jason Ho
man PhD, CTO, JoyentRails Conf 2007Thursday, May 17, 2007
Today’s schedule
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Hi, I’m Jason
Sections
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- What did they get me into?
- 6 Acts
- What I’ll tell you about
- Some of Joyent’s
- Let’s break that down
- A Sysadmin’s view
- “Logical” servers for the connector
- Ease of management is on a log scale
- Amps, Volts and Watts
- A $5000 Dell 1850 costs $1850 to power over a 3 year lifespan
- How many servers fit in a 100kw?
- Physical considerations
- A joyent.net node (-ish)
- Whatever you do
- Some of my rules
- What’s the cost breakpoints?
- KISS
- I/O
- Cabling standard
- Vendors
- Servers
- Storage?
- Leverage
- Some comments
- Why we started with Dells
- Why we ended up using Sun
- Lease if you can
- So what’s a typical lease payment?
- So you want to colo?
- Typical power they’ll allow
- Typical Costs
- Comparison
- Ruby
- So how do you run a rails process?
- How we do Mongrel
- How do you scale processes?
- Add up how and where?
- Horizontally scaling across processes
- BIG-IPs
- The real wins with BIG-IPs
- Each controller has their own app servers
- Free software LB alternatives
- My preferred web server + LB proxy
- Maybe a RDMS isn’t the only thing
- memcached
- J-EAI
- LDAP
- Sina
- Hashed directory structures
- Downsides of the MD5-style
- But
- Jamis does something like this
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