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Mar 5, 2012
Yes I know — Java, ick. But sometimes it’s worth it. Even though JRuby is blazingly fast, sometimes as fast as Java, there are situations where it just makes more sense to roll up your sleeves and write some proper curly brackets.
Until very recently I wasn’t aware that JRuby had any form of extension API, I just thought that because the Java integration is as good as it is out of the box there wasn’t any need for something like the MRI C API. Then I came across Charles Nutter’s Atomic gem, which is partly written in Java, and had some curious properties that made me dig a little deeper.
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May 11, 2010
In our industry having a 99.99% uptime is the difference between getting payed by your customer and paying your customer.As a skilled systems administrator you’ll join one of the most competent web application teams in Europe to provide technical support and administration to our ever-growing number of machines.You have experience in running high-traffic web sites. You know how to best build up a performant and secure web application stack all the way from routers to servers to load balancers.You listen well, produce quickly and you’re proactive with problems. You really know how to get things done, but more importantly you know when to say ‘No.’.Your beard is trustworthy.
