Crazy Delicious?
During the last few weeks the speed at Integrum has been at break neck speed. We are doing a ton of cool stuff and working with a lot of top name clients (that of course we are under NDA with). We are touching technologies that are new and exciting on a regular basis and we aren't taking the time to talk about them. So I figured I would spill the beans a little bit.
One area that we have started mastery of is Xen virtualization. We have consolidated our server farm considerably to cut power needs and create standard rails machines to bring new applications on line with little effort. This work has really started pushing us to research Amazon's elastic computing cloud and S3. We have some interesting ideas on how to abuse this technology for many of our customers. We will let you know how it works or doesn't work as the days pass.
Additionally we have many customers that are building families of applications or services and want to solve the problem of having to re-register for each service. We have been researching OpenID for some time and recently have really made a push to implement this at our core. I noticed that DHH seems to be going down the same path and so I am sure we will hear a lot more about this in the near future.
Last, but not least one thing near to my own computing heart has been research towards doing some some data warehousing via rails. I have run into a great little gem called activewarehouse. I have not had a chance to fully exploit playing with it, but on the surface it shows potential. I hope to blogging about how wonderful it is in the very near future.
