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Fast JSON APIs in Rails with Key-Based Caches and ActiveModel::Serializers

Want to make your Rails JSON APIs fast? Blisteringly fast? In a project I’ve...
Josh Clayton
May 30, 2013
- Web
- Performance
- Rails
New screencast: Improving Performance for Real-time Requests

We’re pleased to announce our newest screencast video on Upcase, Improving...
Chad Pytel
May 9, 2013
- News
- Web
- Performance
- Rails
- Upcase
Designing for iOS: Graphics & Performance

Note: Even though the technology stack in iOS remained largely unchanged, the...
Reda Lemeden
November 26, 2012
- iOS
- Design
- Performance
Factory Bot 2.4 Goes Meta

Factory Bot1 has been getting some hardcore internal refactorings over the...
Josh Clayton
January 13, 2012
- News
- Web
- Rails
- Performance
- Open Source
- Factory Girl
- Factory Bot
How-To: Quick Rails Benchmarking

This February 6th we are launching a new workshop: Advanced Rails. The...
Harold Giménez
November 2, 2011
- Web
- Rails
- Performance
7 Minute Ab: Impatient Man's Load Tests For A Heroku App

A quick way to do a lightweight load test on Heroku.
Dan Croak
August 2, 2011
- Web
- Heroku
- Performance
- Testing
Hoptoad, the Cloud, and the Pond Ahead

How we’re making Hoptoad scale by using MongoDB.
Harold Giménez
March 9, 2011
- Web
- Airbrake
- Performance
- Rails
Fetching Source Index for http://rubygems.org/

Why Bundler is slow.
Nick Quaranto
January 13, 2011
- Web
- Ruby
- Performance
PostgreSQL Performance Considerations

Know the Postgres index types such as multicolumn indexes and partial indexes, don’t over-index, use more joins, prefer INNER JOINs, understand the EXPLAIN output, and don’t try to optimize on your development machine.
Harold Giménez
January 7, 2011
Hopping in the Cloud

We made Hoptoad into a distributed system to better scale its traffic.
Jason Morrison
March 31, 2010
- Airbrake
- Performance
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