Ezra Zygmuntowicz of Engine Yard demonstrates Solo, their new cloud offering for the deployment and management of lightweight Rails, Merb, or Rack apps.
Yehuda Katz, member of the Rails core team, describes the many new ways to extend Rails 3, including the overall philosophy of extending ActionController and how to use ActiveModel to better integrate your non-ActiveRecord Ruby objects and Rails.
Ezra Zygmuntowicz of Engine Yard details their new Flex cloud hosting product, including the extensive use of Chef for automated deployment. Ezra also discusses the feature roadmap for Flex.
Lew Cirne, CEO of New Relic, outlines how they use their own RPM product to maintain and improve the performance of their application, which processes billions of transactions per month with the average response time under 40ms.