Tutorials
How not to structure your database-backed web applications
How not to structure your database-backed web applications: a study of performance bugs in the wild Yang et al., ICSE'18 This is a fascinating study of the problems people get into when using ORMs to handle persistence concerns in their web applic...
Ruby Memory Environment Variables - Simpler Than They Look. — Appfolio Engineering
You've probably seen some of the great posts on how you can use environment variables to tune Ruby's memory use. They look complicated, don't they? If you need to squeeze out every last ounce of performance, they can be useful.