Justin Britten  founded Prefinery in 2007 on the idea that excellent software is built in collaboration with your beta testers. Justin is passionate about building, discovering, and using awesome software and encourages other young entrepreneurs to simply Build, Launch, and Tinker. He is also founder of the Entrepreneurs on Rails group in Austin.

On Thursday, October 29, Engine Yard will bring their Rails Performance in the Cloud Roadshow to Austin.

Ruby on Rails is a an open-source web framework which is incredibly popular as it allows for powerful web applications to be built in a matter of days. It’s also the guts behind many Austin startups, including OtherInbox, Gelato, CheapTweet, and Prefinery.

Engine Yard is a premier, fully managed Rails hosting provider. They provide hosting to much of the Rails business ecosystem, including Lighthouse, UserVoice, and until recently Github. Earlier this year they introduced Engine Yard Cloud, which combines their hosting experience with the Amazon cloud, including EC2 and S3.

Accompanying Engine Yard’s CTO and Co-founder Tom Mornini are company representatives from New Relic, CVSDude and CloudTest. Together, this crew will present on:

- Scalable Cloud Architecture
- End-user performance monitoring tools
- Just-in-time infrastructure scaling
- Cost-effective, realistic load testing
- Application performance introspection
- And the performance improvements coming with Ruby 1.9 and Rails 3

The event is free, including the opportunity to network over a buffet breakfast. However, attendance is limited, so register now to secure your spot.

What:
Rails Performance in the Cloud Roadshow, presented by Engine Yard

When:
Thursday, October 29th
8:15 a.m. – Noon

Where:
Wyndham Garden Hotel
Ih-35 S, Austin, TX 78745