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3 areas where MacRuby shines vs. Objective-C  redwoodapp.posterous.com
We were writing Objective-C when we started building Redwood. When we released the app this week, almost all of our code was written in Ruby. There were three spots where using MacRuby really made a difference.
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scout_api gem released: query your time series data  blog.scoutapp.com
We just released the scout_api gem to query metrics stored on Scout. An example: Scout::Server.first(:name => "Web Server").metrics.maximum(:name => 'Memory Used')
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Any MacRuby Apps in the App Store? Yes.  redwoodapp.posterous.com
While MacRuby isn't available as a public framework on Snow Leopard, there's nothing that prevents you from embedding the framework in your application and publishing it in the Mac App Store. Three examples of MacRuby apps available on the App Store.
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Detect and Fix HAProxy+Apache+Passenger Queue Backlogs  blog.scoutapp.com
Traffic to a Rails app can pass through a number of queues (load balancer, Apache, Passenger, etc). It's easy to miss a backlog in one of these queues - learn how to find and fix queue backlogs in your web stack.
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Where are the Rails infrastructure support firms?  blog.scoutapp.com
A baby is a lot like a Rails application: the problem is caring for it, not creating it. Where are the caretakers for this Rails business baby boom?
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5 Pillars of Rails Cluster Monitoring  blog.scoutapp.com
When it comes to monitoring a cluster of servers, there are lots of options with overlapping features. Here's how we're happily monitoring our Rails cluster at Scout.
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Q&A w/John Nunemaker on MongoDB  blog.scoutapp.com
The author of MongoMapper says Mongo is pretty much his default database. The post also introduces John's Scout plugin for monitoring MongoDB.
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Oink + Request Log Analyzer = Rails Monitoring in one report  blog.scoutapp.com
Request Log Analyzer, which analyzes a Rails log file and reports throughput and request times, adds Oink file format processing for memory usage metrics. Also includes information on memory leak alerts using Scout.
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Three reasons for Resque (and a Scout Plugin)  railsmachine.com
Jesse Newland of Rails Machine shares three reasons they've started using Resque for high-volume background job processing.
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Is your Rails app under-provisioned?  blog.scoutapp.com
Performance looking good on the server but not in real-life? The warning signs of an under-provisioned Rails application (and how to track it).
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Monitoring Delayed::Job with Scout  blog.scoutapp.com
Lukas Rieder, Alexander Lang and Eric Lindvall have created a Scout plugin for monitoring Delayed::Job. With the plugin, you can graph and get alerts on running jobs, scheduled jobs, failed jobs and more.
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Production Rails Tuning with Passenger: PassengerMaxProcesses  railsmachine.com
Jesse Newland, CTO of RailsMachine, shares some of his expertise on Phusion Passenger tuning on the Scout Blog.
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Request-Log-Analyzer 1.4 Released  github.com
Request-Log-Analyzer, a command line tool that analyzes logfiles and generates performance reports has lots of great stuff in the 1.4.0 release. Support for more log formats, standard deviation reporting, speed improvements, and more.
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Division of Labor: Keeping a Ruby daemon running and leak-free  blog.scoutapp.com
This post shows how we (Scout) tackled memory leaks and dying processes in our Scout Agent.
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3 pillars of Rails monitoring  blog.scoutapp.com
The 3 ways we breakdown Rails monitoring at Scout and the tools we use to do it.
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Monitoring Phusion Passenger with Scout  blog.scoutapp.com
Using the new Passenger Monitor plugin, Scout keeps track of key Passenger statistics and alerts you if any of these stats cross a line you indicate.
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4 simple steps to detect & fix slow Rails requests  blog.scoutapp.com
4 simple steps to detect & fix slow Rails requests - a tutorial on how we use Scout & the Query Reviewer Plugin to quickly fix slow web requests.
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