Arun Gupta, Miles to go ...
Arun Gupta is a technology enthusiast, a passionate runner, and a community guy who works for Sun Microsystems.
Tuesday March 10, 2009
Involver.com - JRuby-on-Rails and GlassFish powering an online video marketing platform
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Involver.com is an online video marketing platform that allows brands to build, promote, manage, and track video campaigns on social networks for targeted audiences. The platform is powered by Ruby-on-Rails, JRuby 1.1.6, and GlassFish v2 UR2. |
Why not "pack of mongrels" ?
this deployment strategy wasn't an efficient use of resources, both human and machine. So we started to look at alternative solutions.
JRuby was chosen because
impressive strides the JRuby team was making with Rails compatibility
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possibilities of integrating with Java.
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the runtime pooling feature of JRuby would enable an elastic cluster of Rails environments, which meant we would only have the overhead of a full cluster during periods of high traffic
GlassFish was chosen over Tomcat and JBoss because
project was sponsored commercially by Sun & that the core team had a well-defined public roadmap and release cycle
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high degree of community overlap between the JRuby & GlassFish projects
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there were experts at the intersections of these tools
and
GlassFish Admin console played a large role as it shielded us from managing verbose XML configuration files
Read the detailed questionnaire here.
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Posted by Arun Gupta in web2.0 | Comments[2]
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This is a personal weblog, I do not speak for my employer.
Arun,
We are looking for a video solution. Although we have invested heavily in Java technologies, at present due to the (perceived?) lack of alternate (web based) video streaming solutions from Sun, we are leaning towards other alternates.
Beside performance one of our primary concerns is to maintain authenticity and integrity of video content.
Looking at Revolver's performance experience in "detailed questionnaire", do you see in near future GlassFish and JavaFX (or something else) can address these two concerns?
Posted by MP on March 10, 2009 at 08:14 AM PDT #
Sorry I meant "Involver's" performance experience.
Posted by MP on March 10, 2009 at 08:16 AM PDT #