MagLev, Ruby VM on Gemstone OODB, Wows RailsConf

murphee ends along a report from InfoQ: "Gemstone demoed [MagLev,] their Ruby VM built on their GemStone S64 VM, to an ecstatic audience. Gemstone's Smalltalk VM allows OODBs of up to 17 PetaBytes, with none of the old ActiveRecord nonsense: the data is persisted transparently. The Gemstone OODB also takes care of any distribution, allowing the Ruby VM and data to scale across many servers (Cheerio, memcached!). There's also an earlier quite technical interview with Gemstone's Bob Walker and Avi Bryant about MagLev."

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Re:Talk really did wow the conference

[crawling_chaos]

You mean that when you pay someone to write software you get a product that scales and is documented and all of the other crap that most open source programmers seem to actively sneer at, because that kind of work seems menial and boring to them? Perish the thought!