Jim Barcelona

Hello, my name is Jim Barcelona.

I am a clutch coder that has saved a few PHP and Ruby on Rails projects from doom. In high pressure, and truly challenging situations, a clutch coder comes through with a successful piece of software.

I am a scalability hacker, and can improve the speed of your Internet applications by installing and tuning gearman and the latest in fast and scalable key-value stores, e.g. mongdodb, tokyo cabinet, cassandra and memcached. I have put fast and scalable full-text search engines such as sphinx into production with little or no downtime. I truly love making applications faster, and seeing people happy about that.

Stuff I Built For You

sitebeagle let's you know if a web site is down or if it's been updated. It also has twitter notification. (Ready for mass consumption 03/18/2009.)

frostale let's you do Active Directory authentication via a Ruby gem that can be used for a Ruby script or Ruby on Rails project.

Sites That I Helped Scale

Gaia Online
Dogster
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