Orlando Ruby Users Group

Our next ORUG meeting is this Thursday, July 9th, 7 PM at Devry Room 114. A few of us will be meeting at Panda Express for dinner at 6 PM before the meeting for lunch, so feel free to stop by (Panda is right next to Devry, you can’t miss it).

First up we’ll have a presentation by Nathaniel Bibler entitled “Building a Video Portal in Rails, How the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Started Streaming”. Nathaniel did this talk at Railsconf, and he’ll be redoing it for our group. Using a project built for 4Kids Entertainment (http://www.4kidstv.com) as a basis, he’ll talk about technical issues, creative solutions, and many other hurdles involved in building a successful video portal in Ruby on Rails.

Then I’ll be doing a quick talk on “Scaling your Database”. I’ve been working on two new videos for the Scaling Rails Screencast series with this topic, and I thought it’d be fun to run the talk here before I film it. We’ll be talking a lot about Database Replication, Data Sharding, and other strategies for avoiding a database bottleneck.

In the next day I’m going to be talking to Ezra Zygmuntowicz (from Engine Yard), Mark Imbriaco (Sys Admin for 37 Signals), and Mike Perham (author of the Data Fabric gem and the memcached-client gem) to hear about their recommendations for scaling the database. I’ll take their recommendations, and put them into my talk Thursday. Should be interesting!

Hope to see you there. Oh, and I do want to mention that CoLab (http://www.colaborlando.com) is free this Friday if you want to come work with a few other Ruby doods. RSVP here: http://colabfreefridays.eventbrite.com/