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Workshop of Ruby + Ruby on Rails + SCRUM at ORT University – July 6, 2011

Posted by Martin Cabrera on June 28, 2011

Moove-IT is now part of the Ruby on Rails Workshops and Conferences around the world.

Even when Ruby seems to be the most popular modern programming language in America, there was nowhere in Uruguay you could actually learn it. Moove-IT will give you a heads up on this exciting language and Rails framework on July 6, 2011 (please see ad below).

This will be the first in a series of workshops focusing on Ruby, RoR, Scrum and hands on training exercises.

We are so proud to have made so much progress working with this technology and methodology that we feel the need to contribute to the local Ruby community.

Join us! Be part.

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Introduction to node.js

Posted by cherta on June 23, 2011

I’m gonna talk about node.js and the benefits of using node.js on the server side. First lets clear some concepts.

Regular web servers use threads (OS threads) for handling requests.
1 request = 1 OS threads
1000 requests = 1000 OS threads
Every OS thread takes some memory from the system and does not return it till the thread execution is finished (i.e: servers the response).
Most of the time when doing I/O the thread just sits there and waits for the I/O operation to finish.
```
var result = query(“select * from users”)
//do something with result
```

The conclusion is simple, in order to serve applications with a lot of users making simultaneous requests or even holding requests from your web server, like chats or real time applications you can’t use regular web servers because it is impossible to scale.