The startup I had been working for went under, so I have been busy finding a new job and settling in. Got a good gig now at a new place and things are going well.
I'm not doing as much Ruby any more, but I am doing lots of datawarehousing work. There is a new engine out for mysql called 'infobright'. It has proven to be very quick when doing the kinds of queries you do when analyzing web statistics. Easily 10x as fast as MyISAM tables.
Follow up:
It's licensing is similar to the MySQL license. There is a community edition that is lacking some features(can only batch load data - no INSERT, UPDATE, DELETE), and only forum support (altho the forum support is pretty good). The enterprise edition has more features, and full support.
It is annoying to have to work around the limitations in the community edition, but it is fairly straightforward. Currently the price of the enterprise edition is quite high, to me the support and features do not justify the current price point ($9950/TB/year at the time of writing).
You can read more about it and download the community edition here: http://www.infobright.org/
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