persistence layer

The rapid descent of the weather towards winter is getting people to stay in and code and long may it continue given the quality of this week's releases: OmniAuth 1.0, MagLev 1.0, and Ruby 1.9.3, for starters!

And now for the final post in this series, unless I start to get some serious questions :)

After recently attending the MongoUK conference in London, it is clear that MongoDB is fast finding application amongst cutting-edge web developers.

As a relatively new concept for persistence, NoSQL (Not Only SQL) and more specifically document-oriented databases, such as MongoDB, are starting to enter the web applications landscape.

Its strength lies in speed and ability to cope with dynamic data, making its goals align closely with requirements of many websites around today.

MagLev is a new(ish) Ruby implementation built by Gemstone Systems that focuses on providing an integrated object persistence layer and a distributed shared cache - a truly scalable Ruby implementation.

Adam Jensen has added another post (a followup to a previous one looking at Zend Framework modules) about a "first draft" of a practical application of the topic - the code for a Zend Framework content model.