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23
Steven Smith
7 CommentsWe sat down and talked to Steven Smith from FiveRuns.
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- Simpler, smarter solution for systems management
- Focused on the mid-market, few servers to several hundred
- Simpler pricing scheme, no per cpu/per application, just per server
- Built in Ruby and Ruby on Rails
- Tracking down bugs in Rails apps (Typo memory leak, which btw is now fixed)
- Mephisto blogging software and Radiant CMS
- Using Rails to build cost effective applications for the long tail (Shameless plug for SteelPixel)
- Ruby on Rails scalability presentation at Rails conf [PDF]
- Lighttpd, FastCGI, and Mongrel
- “Textmate for Mac”: for Rails development
- Syncpeople Textmate plugins
- Taking Funding from Austin Ventures
- Merging Web 2.0 ideas with traditional software
- Take a shot, Steven mentions 37signals!
- Automator Rails Dev Script
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