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Synchronous Reads, Asynchronous Writes

Data writes are often the bottleneck for application scalability. What if you moved all of your data writes over to an asynchronous style? How could other services and programs in your application take advantage of those broadcast writes to build optimized structures designed for high performance synchronous reads? Asynchronous writes enable you to build additional event driven intelligence seamlessly into your application. We'll cover in gory detail how to route all of your data writes throu... View More

Railscast #179 - Seed Data

00:07:56 railscasts.com
Rails 2.3.4 includes a conventional way to add seed data to your application - no more including it in the migration files.
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SD Ruby - Episode 029: Big Stinking Piles (of data)

What do you do when third-party data vendors don’t speak REST? Rob Kaufman discuss real-world techniques for importing and exporting data. (This talk was also given at RailsConf 2007.)
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SD Ruby - Episode 048: Ruby for Data Processing

Brian Chapados talks about using ruby & rake to build a simple workflow to coordinate external processes. Bonus content: download the slides from this talk.