Learn how Upworthy scaled a Ruby on Rails application to serve massive traffic

Luigi Montanez is the founding engineer of the viral content website http://upworthy.com and in this ATLRUG talk from July 9, 2014, he gives a fascinating insight into one approach to managing the growth of a startup’s web app in the face of very high traffic. Their backend is built upon Ruby on Rails with an effective use of the Fastly CDN to deliver very high performance at scale.