Sam Saffron AMA: Performance and Monitoring with Ruby – Shopify Engineering

Sam Saffron is a co-founder of Discourse and the creator of the mini_profiler, memory_profiler, mini_mime and mini_racer gems. He has written extensively about various performance topics on samsaffron.com and is dedicated to ensuring Discourse keeps running fast.Sam visited Shopify in Ottawa and talked to us about Discourse’s approach to Ruby performance and monitoring. He also participated in an AMA and answered the top voted questions submitted by Shopifolk which we are sharing here.Ruby has a bad reputation when it comes to performance. What do you think are the actual problems? And do you think the community is on the right track to fix this reputation?Sam Saffron: I think there are a lot of members of the community that are very keen to improve performance. And this runs all the way from above. DHH is also very interested in improving performance of Ruby.