04.14.08 - 02:30pm
The Ruby on Rails story is usually presented to the new developer as a wonderful break from tradition that makes a developer’s life so much better than the frameworks of the past. The clattering of skeletons in the closet you’re hearing? Well, that’s because it makes the sysadmin’s life much worse than PHP or Java. […]
02.16.08 - 12:16am
There’s a new crop of databases that has appeared lately, under the rubric of “document databases”, and there’s quite a lot of enthusiasm for them given that they tend to be slow and very feature-poor compared to the SQL RDBMSs that are the typical persistence mechanism for web applications. What’s mainly appealing about them is […]
11.13.07 - 06:23pm
In I still don’t get the fascination with Ruby on Rails, Andy Davidson writes:
Scaling does not mean “Allows you to throw money at the problem”, it means “Can deal with workload”. He goes on to recommend mod_perl instead of Rails.
I’m not interested whether he likes Rails or not. Lots of people hate Rails, and I […]
11.12.07 - 05:22pm
Technical Architecture is a Form of Investing. I’m reminded of this sort of thinking because of recent news from RubyConf 2007.
11.12.07 - 04:02pm
Technical architecture (the act of researching and specifying a set of technologies to address a particular need) is a form of investing. Sadly, like stock market investors, many technical architects are blinded by hype, hero worship, tribalism, and short-sightedness, and make poor decisions as a result. A comparison between current web application development issues and […]