Its been a while..

Posted by ezmobius Sun, 05 Aug 2007 23:11:00 GMT

Wow it’s been 55 days since I last posted here! I’ve been very busy for the last few months. So here is a little update on what I’ve been up to.

Just released Merb 0.3.7 as a gem. Check it out, lots of new stuff in there. Lots of new code contriubtors as well. Merb has an open door svn policy> If you send me one or two good patches then I will give you commit rights.

I’ll be giving a talk on Merb at The Ruby Hoedown this coming weekend. WIll post the slides and hopefully have audio/video recording.

At Engine Yard we just finished our new third generation architecture and we are starting to dole out new slices on the new cluster tomorrow. We also launched Zaadz.com on their own dedicated cluster with 28cpu cores, 100Gigs of RAM and 14Tb SAN storage. They have a lot of room to grow into this cluster now and it was great fun designing the ultimate system with all services separated out nicely into their own VM’s

Anyway.. I will be blogging more here shortly. Have some nice tips on nginx + memcached and a new mongrel_leash customized monit dog watcher.

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EngineYard hires Evan Phoenix to work on Rubinius

Posted by ezmobius Thu, 24 May 2007 03:40:00 GMT

I’m really stoked about this. I think rubinius has so much potential that I am really happy to be able to support it. Starting next month Evan Phoenix is going to be working here at EY half time on ey tools and such and half time on rubinius.

For those of your who aren’t familiar with rubinius you can read a bit more about it here. It’s a new implementation of ruby done in a smalltalk style with a small core VM written in C and almost everyting else written in ruby. Really, even String and Array and definied in ruby. Rubinius is going to open up core ruby hacking to the masses as the internals won’t be a bunch of gnarly C code thats really hard to grasp.

There is still a lot of work to get rubinius to 1.0 status but hopefully hiring Evan will help speed the process. I think we have a great platform to abuse rubinius on here at EY to help it become production worthy.

I love my job folks. I get to play on phat hardware and get to hire some of the smartest hackers around. This is great!

Rubinius FTW!

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