Carl Mercier's blog

First of all, let me set this straight: I LOVE Amazon Web Services. I’ve been using EC2 for about 6 years and Defensio has always been entirely running on AWS. The flexibility is unparalleled and the variety of services such as EC2, ELB, EBS, S3 and CloudFront is a joy to use. However, there’s a problem with EC2. [...]

At Defensio, we recently needed to find out how slow YAML was compared to Marshal. We also wanted to know how much faster ZAML, an alternative to YAML, is. I ran a few benchmarks under 1.8.7 MRI, 1.8.7 REE, 1.9.2 and Rubinius to see how they compare. I also benchmarked to_json to have an order [...]