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ActiveSupport::Notifications

#409 Jul 9, 2023 pro

In this episode, we'll dive into ActiveSupport::Notifications to perform simple metrics. We'll then use this technique to troubleshoot and pinpoint where slow running lines of code are. It can be a great debugging technique when trying to deal with slow requests or functions.

rails performance metrics

Speeding Up Requests

#322 Nov 7, 2021 free

In this episode, we look at several issues around pagination and different kinds of querying that could affect performance when working with large datasets.

performance rails search pagination

Cache Warming

#273 Dec 13, 2020 pro

Caching is a great way to speed up your applications. However, when a cache becomes stale, there could be a user experience degradation until the cache is rebuilt. In this episode, we look at implementing a background job to rebuild the cache.

background processing performance rails

Benchmark Ruby Code

#262 Oct 4, 2020 free

It's easy to accidentally write slow code in our applications. In this episode, we look at how we can benchmark our code and examples of some methods which are slower than others.

benchmark performance ruby

Application Performance Monitoring in Rails

#185 Apr 28, 2019 pro

Monitoring your application's performance is an important part of knowing its health. In this episode, we look at three popular services.

analytics rails performance

3 Different Perspectives of Importing Records

#180 Mar 31, 2019 pro

In this episode, we look at 3 different ways of importing data into a Rails application; each having their own use cases, drawbacks and benefits.

rails model performance

Improving Partial Loading Performance

#145 Aug 5, 2018 free

N+1 queries can make an application slow. Having queries called within views can also slow down an app as well as making it less extendable.

rails performance database

Ruby Objects and Memoization

#120 Feb 18, 2018 pro

In this episode, we look at creating ruby objects. Then we look at different ways of implementing memoization and how it can be used to speed up our classes.

ruby performance

Benchmarking and Refactoring the content_for View Helper

#90 Jul 23, 2017 free

In a recent blog post, we looked into the content_for view helper to render breadcrumbs. Once we got the feature working, it's time to refactor the feature to lower technical debt.

rails performance benchmark refactor

Searchkick and Elasticsearch

#65 Jan 29, 2017 free

Add full text searching using Searchkick and Elasticsearch. Here I will show the steps involved in adding this search to an existing application and a sample of autocomplete functionality.

rails search performance

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