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The Platform Scalability Project... Comparing Rails & PHP.

Mar 2009 17

Tue 6:30 PM

Location: Soda Hall - Room 306

Hearst Ave & Le Roy Ave -
Room #306 - 3rd Floor
Berkeley, CA 94709
510-684-6400

This is a private home or office

How to find us
"I'm the guy wearing the hat (if you must know, it's a Fedora)"

Estimated attendance: 47 people attended.
3.507
Who organized?
Jon Seidel and William Sobel

6:30 - 7:00pm -- Open Mic

7:00 - 8:15pm -- The Main Feature

Olio is an incubator project created as a collaboration between the UC Berkeley RADLab and Sun Microsystems. The goal of Olio is to create a toolkit where we can compare different web frameworks, cloud providers, and storage solutions. We'll be discussing how we developed the Olio application in each framework and how they compare to each other using EC2 as the common hosting platform.

We'll talk about the complexity of developing a common application in multiple frameworks and how we made the decisions we made for features and functionality. Both implementation provide comparable functionality, but are not identical.

Akara will discuss the load testing tool Faban he created and why using a workload generator that provides both read-write operations and markov based workflow provide important benefits when comparing components. He'll also discuss the decisions they made when they developed the PHP version of the Web 2.0 application.

William Sobel will be presenting results from a research project conducted by UC Berkeley RADLab and Sun Microsystems. We wrote a "Web 2.0" application in both PHP and Ruby/Rails to compare how the platforms scaled and how much more it would cost to host a number of users in each platform.

Akara Sucharitakul will be speaking on the Faban framework and the PHP version of the application. He is a senior engineer at Sun Microsystems and responsible for the Faban toolkit.

The Olio Apache incubator project has been kicked off to provide these tools and software to the community. These tools can be found at Apache Olio, please check it out!

William Sobel was the original founder of the EB Ruby Meetup and has been working as a Visiting Lecturer at UC Berkeley teaching RoR to undergrads. He is also starting a few companies in his spare time.

8:15 - 8:30pm -- Announcements

If you need help or you're looking for something interesting to work on, we'll give you a minute to stand up and make yourself known.

8:30 - 9:00pm -- Open Discussion