Theo Hultberg is Chief Architect at Burt, a Göteborg based big data startup that wants to revolutionize the advertising industry by showing that there's more to ad analytics than clicks. He’s the co-organizer of his local Ruby, Scala, JavaScript and distributed systems user groups, and his only claim to fame is that he has more reputation on Stack Overflow than both Jeff and Joel.
You've probably heard people say that Rails can't scale. Perhaps you've even reached that conclusion yourself. It may or may not be true, but it's besides the point. Scaling Rails is not the issue, scaling your application is.
This talk is not about Rails. It’s about building scalable applications using Ruby, how to look beyond Rails and into the realm of distributed systems. Over the last few years I’ve built a real time ad analytics platform that processes hundreds of millions of messages per day -- it started as a Rails application and ended up somewhere completely different. Let me show you the good, and the bad, choices I made, and what I learned along the way.
I've submitted this talk to Eurucamp, but i don't know if it's been accepted.