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YELLOWPAGES.COM: Behind the Curtain
55:00
Summary
This talk explains how YELLOWPAGES.COM, one of the highest-traffic websites in the U.S., was written using Ruby on Rails, how it was scaled to handle the traffic and how the software architecture evolved. Also: the reasons for choosing Ruby on Rails.
Bio
John Straw led the development team which pulled off the YELLOWPAGES.COM Big Rewrite.
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Mar 12, 2009