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Choosing a Programming Language and Framework for Your Startup

SoCal CTO

Or you might have an investor (or founder) who's convinced that you need to work in a given language (some VCs love Ruby right now). Misconception #1 - "You can build things 10x faster in Ruby." Bottom line, you really are not seeing that much different between Ruby/Rails and Groovy/Grails in terms of development speed.

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Framework Benchmarks

TechEmpower

Netty , Vert.x , and Java servlets are fast, but we were surprised how much faster they are than Ruby , Django , and friends. and Ruby on Rails is staggering. Ruby 2.0.0-p0. . --> Whoa! Before we did the benchmarks, we were guessing there might be a 4x difference. But a 40x difference between Vert.x Two Amazon EC2 m1.large

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Frameworks Round 1

TechEmpower

Netty , Vert.x , and Java servlets are fast, but we were surprised how much faster they are than Ruby , Django , and friends. and Ruby on Rails is staggering. Ruby 2.0.0-p0. . --> Whoa! Before we did the benchmarks, we were guessing there might be a 4x difference. But a 40x difference between Vert.x Two Amazon EC2 m1.large

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Frameworks Round 2

TechEmpower

Ruby 2.0.0-p0. Two Intel Sandy Bridge Core i7-2600K workstations with 8 GB memory each (early 2011 vintage) for the i7 tests. Two Amazon EC2 m1.large large instances for the EC2 tests. Switched gigabit Ethernet. Load simulator. MySQL 5.5.29. MongoDB 2.0.5. Rack 1.5.1. JRuby 1.7.3. Resin 4.0.34 (for JRuby). Rails 3.2.11. Sinatra 1.3.4.

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13 Sites You Love Built With Ruby On Rails

YoungUpstarts

If you are reading this, you are probably into Ruby and obviously heard of Ruby on Rails – a useful and super popular web application framework. With the help of our friends from Rails Ware Web Development Company , we have gathered 13 famous sites built with Ruby on Rails framework: 500px.

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Want to Know the Difference Between a CTO and a VP Engineering?

Both Sides of the Table

They’ll have a view on whether Ruby on Rails is worth the hassle. Others think you should never build anything highly scalable on Ruby. Or whether it’s a choice between using MySQL vs. Postgres. Some CTO’s swear that it is a huge improvement in development timeframes and doesn’t cause performance issues.

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50 Places You Can Learn to Code (for Free) Online

YoungUpstarts

Learn Code the Hard Way : On Learn Code The Hard Way, you’ll find books and courses to learn Python, Ruby, C, SQL, and Regex. Onvard : Onvard offers a self-guided resource for learning different tracks, including Ruby on Rails, HTML, and PHP. to learn the basics of programming Ruby, with no previous programming experience needed.

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