[Chirb] Rails Scaling Experience?

[Tyler Jennings]

> I personnally would love to get an experienced engineers take on
> performance, scaling, profiling and RoR.

I think each one of those could be a session =].  Do we want a 30k
foot-view of the whole landscape or an in-depth talk on each topic?

I'm willing to present on any of these topics individually or a
higher-level talk for all of them, but I think many of you might be
disappointed by the latter sort of talk.

I can also provide the same sort of talk for RoR on JRuby, which might
be more interesting to some of you.

I've been to a number of the chirb talks, but most of you probably
don't know me well.  I'm a Senior Consultant at Obtiva and I've been
building Rails apps for a couple of years now.  Before that I worked
as a consultant in J2EE land for a number of years.

My current project is a JRuby / RoR port of a Java stack web
application (Struts2/Spring IOC/Hibernate) for a large international
retailer.  We launched about 4 months ago and now have around 40% of
the site rendered with Rails.  Performance and scalability is
certainly a concern for our client, so I have a lot of recent research
to offer in this area.

I'm also preparing another talk based on this project that will
discuss our approach for the integration of JRuby & Rails with an
existing Java web application.  I would also like to present this at
chirb, if there is any interest.

-Tyler Jennings