Engine Yard, Inc.

S01E34: Cody Swann

August 5, 2011

Cody Swann discusses Ruby on Rails 3.1, Node.js and the Rails project he worked on for ESPN.

• 00:10 Introduction
• 01:25 How Cody’s Experience at ESPN Shaped the Culture at Gunner Technology
• 03:10 Ruby on Rails taking root in large corporations
• 07:40 How Rails was received at ESPN
• 11:10 Scaling with Rails
• 14:15 Nginx extension
• 16:10 Cody’s recent projects
• 19:15 Projects in Node.js
• 21:10 Comparing Node.js to Rails
• 23:00 CoffeeScript
• 25:00 Rails 3.1 release

Links: "Gunner Technology":http://gunnertech.com/ "MySQL":http://www.mysql.com/ "node.js":http://nodejs.org/ "CoffeeScript":http://jashkenas.github.com/coffee-script/ "Rails 3.1 Release":http://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2011/5/22/rails-3-1-release-candidate "Django":https://www.djangoproject.com/