podcasts

S01E18: Tung Nguyen

08 Apr 2011

Tung Nguyen of Bleacher Report talks about their explosive growth, REE, and plans to upgrade to Rails 3.

  • 1:24 What is Bleacher Report?
  • 1:55 Growth from 50k to 18 million uniques per month
  • 2:25 Performance optimization/monitoring tools
  • 2:56 Their Ruby on Rails performance review
  • 3:22 Recommendation to upgrade to Ruby Enterprise Edition
  • 3:29 What REE is and why it’s important
  • 7:06 Future plans to upgrade to Rails 3
  • 10:00 Fatherhood and learning to hold your newborn while typing with one hand
  • 10:47 Closing: tearful goodbye
  • 11:42 Outro: Partnerpedia Ruby/Rails Job, Matt Aimonetti podcast coming next week