Here is the video from my TorqueBox talk at MagicRuby 2011:
A few comments clarifying some of my answers during question time.
- We don't hate javaists. We love all programmers who want to produce great software quickly, regardless of their language preference. We recognize there are two potential audiences for TorqueBox: javaists and rubyists. We simply believe that the javaists will have a higher "enterprisey bullshit tolerance" than the rubyists, so we measure our success by the adoption of TorqueBox by rubyists. Because we strive to encapsulate the enterprisey bullshit, and emphasize the enterprisey goodness.
- We don't hate JSF. There are some brilliant programmers who can do amazing things with it. But I'm not one of 'em. Because I'm a language guy, not a tools guy. I prefer an awesome editor to an awesome IDE. I prefer a request/response metaphor to a component metaphor. There are plenty of people who share my opinion and at least as many who don't. The beauty of TorqueBox is that it can adapt to the way each of us wants to work. It allows multiple development teams within a single enterprise to choose the tools and techniques that work best for them but still target the same shared deployment platform.
- I completely flubbed the scaling question. Even after stewing on it, I think the right answer is "it depends on your app", but scaling out (rather than up) probably makes the most sense for most apps. Your price/performance will be better on mainstream hardware, and you get to take advantage of the built-in clustering features of JBoss and mod_cluster.
- I say "basically" a lot and touch my face too much. Sorry. My new favorite phrase is "default by true".
Big thanks to two of my incredible teammates, Toby and Ben, for filming the talk. Ben also did an awesome job of editing the video. Because we're a bona fide "pants-optional" distributed team, we don't get a lot of face time with each other, and it was great hanging out with them and their families for a couple of days.
Thanks also to Jeremy for organizing a really fun, informative conference with breakfast, and thanks to Bob for encouraging us to go down there. It was a blast.
Here are the slides. You can download the pdf from slideshare, if you prefer.
