The Techcrunch party was a good time and it’s always nice to see friends and even some hosting customers. Thank you Arrington et al. I had a beer for those of you who couldn’t make it. Picture by Scott Beale of Laughing Squid

The talks schedule is out for the first Rails Conference in Europe and both Koz and I are giving talks. I’ll be talking about Ruby On Rails Applications: A Systems View and Koz is called Playing Nice with Others . My talk is related to the Scale with rails work and God knows what Koz’s…

On a daily basis we receive emails containing things like “I am looking for a host for a commercial ‘Ruby on rails’ website development that is due to go live in 3 weeks time. It is an update to a relatively busy PHP-based site, which is also on old hardware. The site features media streaming,…

Bryan and Justin always crank out great looking stuff, so the systems guys try to keep up. Red and orange run out to storage switches. Black is the dark, private interconnects between servers. Blue is out to the public like water flowing. White is for remote ALOM and goes to the console servers, like a…

Here’s more information about Jason Hoffman’s upcoming talk at the Silicon Valley Ruby Conference. We look forward to meeting you there.