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Mike Perham

Mike Perham
Software Developer, FiveRuns

Mike built his first open source application in 1995 using C and Win32. He’s a member of the Apache Project and recently starting working with Ruby and Rails professionally after a decade in the J2EE world. He has a Masters in Computer Science and races his motorcycle in his spare time.

Sessions

11:35am Friday, 07/25/2008
How Not to Build a Service
Ruby
 Location: D133
Mike Perham (FiveRuns)
FiveRuns launched the RM-Manage monitoring service targeting the Ruby on Rails market in 2007, but not without making plenty of mistakes in the process. This talk will discuss the social, technical, and business lessons learned over the last year. Read more.
OSCON 2008