Scaling Data tier strategies

Kaushik pointed me to an excellent presentation of the eBay Architecture. The intriguing aspect has been scaling the Data tier and some of the interesting strategies suggested are a) No business logic in the DB, quite agreed but the strategy says not to use stored procedures, very interesting and recommends usage of extensive Prepared Statements with bind variables b) Auto commit for vast majority of DB writes.

It is PDF with lot of insights. Read it!

Sweetheart, I'm missing you

It has been a while since I programmed in Ruby. Almost 8 months! I'm doing lot of enterprise Java ;-). Not that I hate Java, it is just to let you know how much I love Ruby. Busy schedules, tight timelines didn't allow me much to allocate time for learning Ruby. I almost forgot it, sob! I wanted to start afresh with Ruby and was searching for some good tutorials and landed at this place - Why's (poignant) guide to Ruby. And I must tell you, it is unputdownable. Go grab the book and start reading. I really wish I work with Ruby and Rails on a real time project soon.