Taberna del Turco

Lenz Grimmer (Mysql) entrevista a David Heinemeier (Ruby on Rails). La primera parte es la típica de siempre: preséntate, cuándo empezaste con Rails, etcétera. Sin embargo al final se va animando y hay algunos fragmentos que vale la pena destacar.

Las perlas:

Now our attention is mostly targeted against plugins for stuff “some people need some of the time” and for tools, like SwitchTower (cluster deployment), that decreases the pain outside the framework issues.

Most certainly. For Rails 1.1, I had the good fun of adding three of the major new features. Polymorphic associations, join models, and form_for/fields_for. I love programming in Ruby and contributing to Rails too much to let popularity interfere with that.

I love MySQL because its fast and easy for the simple stuff. I’m entirely uninterested in fancy features like stored procedures, triggers, and the like. So I hope nothing is being sacrificed while the 5.0 series chases these.

Balance is a really nice software-based load balancer that we use to separate web and application servers at 37signals. It’s nice, fast, and has an interactive terminal that gives you real-time stats, which helps a lot when you want to monitor how things are doing.

Que cada uno saque sus conclusiones.