How to Scale Your Ruby on Rails Application

This article is accurate, but lets be real, every 'tip' they have is for a very high traffic site. With the exception of the traditional caching mechanisms and external dependencies, the rest would be a waste of effort 99% of the time.

The purpose of this article is not to inform you about how to scale a rails app, quite the opposite, it is an article intended to intimidate you about rails deployment. The harder people think it is to do, the more 'value' EY is adding.

You could easily replace "Ruby on Rails" with "Web". This article actually has very few Rails specific tips.