Thanks to Josh Schwartzman of Newzwag for volunteering to talk and host.

Josh is the lead developer at a SF-based Rails startup called Newzwag. They've recently completed a large amount of work converting a write-heavy quiz app for the Olympics to a lean cached machine. The talk will be about the challenges they faced, and how they were able to get 8x performance gains through plugins, caching and performance testing. Others are also welcome to present their own findings.

Josh is definitely interested in having other people present Lightning (or slightly longer) Talks. Post a comment on this event page to let Josh know what you have in mind. Or email Josh through his Meetup member link.