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Make small, data-driven performance improvements

Performance issues are a form of technical debt, and we must pay them off by making informed incremental improvements.
Wil Hall
October 15, 2020
Profiling Vim

Vim enables you to edit text rapidly, but what do you do when Vim itself is slow? Profile!
Chris Thorn
July 15, 2019
- Vim
- Performance
- Tools
thoughtbot offers a new code audit service

Want to learn how to tackle technical debt or improve your product performance? Introducing our new code audit service.
Emily Bahna
April 4, 2019
- Consulting
- Mentoring
- Performance
- Process
- Code
A React Rendering Misconception

In which we learn how often React renders components.
Chris Thorn
April 5, 2017
- React
- Performance
- Web
Slicing up Rails Application.js for Faster Load Times

How to profile page load performance in Chrome and break out modular JavaScript assets.
Oli Peate
February 27, 2017
- Performance
- Rails
Advanced Postgres Performance Tips

What do you do when indexes aren’t enough?
Caleb Hearth
July 29, 2016
- PostgreSQL
- Databases
- SQL
- Performance
Reading a Postgres EXPLAIN ANALYZE Query Plan

Take a guided tour through a query plan for a “simple” SQL query.
Caleb Hearth
July 26, 2016
- PostgreSQL
- Databases
- SQL
- Performance
Take Control of Your HTTP Caching in Rails

Get more control over HTTP caching in Rails.
Damian Galarza
January 26, 2015
- Web
- Rails
- HTTP
- Performance
A Guide to Caching Your Rails Application With Fastly

Understand and implement Fastly caching in your Rails application.
Jessie Young
December 5, 2014
- Web
- Performance
- Rails
Introduction to Conditional HTTP Caching with Rails

Learn how to implement HTTP conditional caching in Rails using fresh_when.
Damian Galarza
November 25, 2014
- Web
- Rails
- HTTP
- Performance
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