Ezra Zygmuntowicz has been working with computers since the 128k original Mac in 1987. He's worked in PHP and hand-blown glass art, and now uses Ruby for web application and system automation programming. His work as the webmaster for the Yakima Herald-Republic newspaper taught him a lot about Rails Deployment architecture and how to scale a Rails app.

Since then he has built and deployed many Rails applications. From these deployments he has collected a play book of patterns and best practices for deploying and scaling rails applications.