High Scalability - High Scalability - Iron.io Moved From Ruby to Go: 28 Servers Cut and Colossal Clusterf**ks Prevented

http://highscalability.com/blog/2013/3/13/ironio-moved-from-ruby-to-go-28-servers-cut-and-colossal-clu.html sometimes language makes a difference ( i.e ruby is too low for a service stack )

High Scalability - High Scalability - Iron.io Moved From Ruby to Go: 28 Servers Cut and Colossal Clusterf**ks Prevented

http://highscalability.com/blog/2013/3/13/ironio-moved-from-ruby-to-go-28-servers-cut-and-colossal-clu.html sometimes language makes a difference ( i.e ruby is too low for a service stack )

How Basecamp Next got to be so damn fast without using much client-side UI - (37signals)

http://37signals.com/svn/posts/3112-how-basecamp-next-got-to-be-so-damn-fast-without-using-much-client-side-ui Interesting notes from 37signals about caching approach. (Make sure to read the comments, there is a message from Jeff Bezos, CEO of Amazon)

How Basecamp Next got to be so damn fast without using much client-side UI - (37signals)

http://37signals.com/svn/posts/3112-how-basecamp-next-got-to-be-so-damn-fast-without-using-much-client-side-ui Interesting notes from 37signals about caching approach. (Make sure to read the comments, there is a message from Jeff Bezos, CEO of Amazon)

libgit2: a linkable library for Git

http://libgit2.github.com/ normal git library, cab be used to create bindings to git (not libgit.a horror from official gir project )

[cross-lang object serialization library] The MessagePack Project

http://msgpack.sourceforge.net/ “MessagePack is a binary-based efficient object serialization library. It enables to exchange structured objects between many languages like JSON. But unlike JSON, it is very fast and small.” cpan Data::MessagePack

Apache passenger vs nginx mongrel | Matt-Darby.com

http://blog.matt-darby.com/posts/697-apache-passenger-vs-nginx-mongrel comparing 2 popular ways to deploy ruby-on-rails app

PWN Your Infrastructure

http://files.agoragames.com/jason/railsconf09/ notes about [web] infrastructure monitoring from well-known game company (call of duty, gitar hero).

Beanstalkd - Software - xph.us [distributed, in-memory workqueue service]

http://xph.us/software/beanstalkd/ seems to a rare thing: a message queue server, running as a native code

[rus] breaking capctha | Artificial Intellegence | Harbrahabr | Взлом каптчи — замахиваемся на святое / Искусственный интеллект / Хабрахабр

http://habrahabr.ru/blogs/artificial_intelligence/67310/#habracut article show how to break captcha (habrahabr.ru – cool russian IT-buzz site) from habrahabr.ru using some ruby + ImageMagic + some AI based on neural network.