Ezra Zygmuntowicz is a co-founder and developer at Engine Yard. Ezra has been active in the Ruby community for over four years and has contributed to many open-source projects, including Rails, Merb, Rack and Rubinius. Ezra is also co-author of Deploying Rails Applications: A Step-by-Step Guide (published by The Pragmatic Programmers). He speaks at Ruby, Rails and cloud computing-related events throughout the United States.
Rails makes everything so simple for developers that it’s easy to get trapped into thinking it will solve every problem, making it easy to stop paying attention to what goes on behind the scenes. Rather than relying on Rails as a cure-all, developers need to focus on scalability from the start. The truth is that […]