There are some other really interesting looking talks at RubyConf this year also...

mrduncan on Sept 17, 2009 | parent | context | favorite | on: BERT and Ernie: Scaling your Ruby site with Erlang

There are some other really interesting looking talks at RubyConf this year also: http://rubyconf.org/pages/program. I only wish that it hadn't sold out so quickly.