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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
Speed Up JavaScript Capybara Specs by Blacklisting URLs

Speed up your tests by telling Capybara WebKit not to hit external APIs.
Simon Taranto
November 14, 2014
- Web
- Testing
- Performance
ActiveRecord Eager Loading with Query Objects and Decorators

How can you plug complex, multi-model SQL queries into ActiveRecord models so that you can use them in your views?
Joe Ferris
September 19, 2014
- Web
- Rails
- SQL
- Performance
Postgres Window Functions

Take your queries to the next level with window functions.
Simon Taranto
September 16, 2014
- Web
- Performance
- PostgreSQL
- SQL
DNS to CDN to Origin

Content Distribution Networks (CDNs) such as Amazon CloudFront and Fastly...
Dan Croak
August 8, 2014
- Web
- Performance
- Ruby
- DNS
Why Postgres Won't Always Use an Index

Use SQL EXPLAIN to understand when and why indexes are used (or not).
Simon Taranto
July 25, 2014
- Web
- Performance
- PostgreSQL
- SQL
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