jason_watkins
2/18/2005 9:33:00 PM
> I also tried to focus on Rails' performance, which I think is where
> most of their interest was. These people were all pretty focused on
> Java--using it in their workplace, etc., so it's not very likely that
> any single presentation would ever convert them to Ruby if all it
does
> is focus on "cool". So I tried to give some performance metrics for
> Basecamp and 43 Things (thanks very much to DHH and Eric Hodel for
> their assistance!), and I think that really opened their eyes.
Would you mind elaborating on the figures in the slides a bit, with the
sort of comments you'd make in the talk?
I'm considering advocating Rails as an alternative to PHP for some
projects I'm likely to be involved it. We'd be using it backed by
postgres (on linux). The audience is a couple of guys familiar with
java, php and perl. I believe I can articulate the developer benefits
clearly, but I'm not really a sysadmin and so can't go into the detail
of what a statement like "43 things has load averages of 0.5 at
6.6pages/sec on dual processor 2ghz xeons" really means. I mean I can
look at the homepage size and do back of the envelope math to say "ok,
that's roughly sustaining 8mbit" but I don't really have any framework
to compare that to what PHP, Perl, or ASP would sustain in that
situation.