CourseAdvisor Case Study at Rails For All
Rails For All has as one of its goals gaining acceptance for Ruby on Rails in the enterprise. They recently did a case study on CourseAdvisor’s ability to handle 1.5M users per month on a Ruby on Rails stack.
Click for the case study.
Some notes that weren’t covered in the piece:
- We use Postgres on our production sites. While MySQL has come a long way (especially with the latest spate of Google patches), Postgres is still in our view much better suited for a stack that treats the database as a real component of the application rather than simply a place to dump data.
- Our peak traffic is currently around 32k hits in an hour, which is about 9 hits per second.
- We have an SLA of one second for generation of all user facing pages. The one exception is our “money” page where we do our complex matching algorithms to suggest a personalized list of schools to a visitor based on their individual profiled. For that page we have a two second SLA.
Dan, it looks like railsforall.org is offline… is this case study something I could post on http://railsonpostgresql.com/?
Tom, unfortunately I don’t have a copy of it. Rails for All was a site run by Robert Dempsey. Hope that helps!
@dan, cool, thanks – I’ll email Robert, I’ve talked with him before… about RubyForge stuff, I think.