Here it is - this month’s Blog Carnival. After lots of reading and searching the network I’ve collected a new dozen of valuable posts. As everybody knows not every single blog post on the globe deserves a read up. That’s why I’m trying to weed out those that are not so useful. So, as a result I’ve compiled this Blog Carnival. I believe that most of these posts deserve a browse. Have a nice reading!

Rails Performance

• Twitter starting to get de-Railed - Twitter starting to get de-Railed - On this post is questioned the scalability of Rails applications. This question has also been asked to David Heinemeier Hansson. Moreover there’s a small discussion on the problem of scaling Twitter. It’s worth to give this post a read.
• A “facility in Rails to talk to more than one database at a time” - Dr.Nic has writen a great plugin to enable our Rails applications to talk to more than one database. Moreover he has written a nice tutor how things work. Good work!

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