Scaling Ruby Apps to 1000 Requests per Minute

Scaling is an intimidating topic. Most blog posts and internet resources around scaling Ruby apps are about scaling Ruby to tens of thousands of requests per minute. That’s Twitter and Shopify scale. These are interesting - it’s good to know the ceiling, how much Ruby can achieve - but not very useful for the majority of us out there that have apps bigger than 1 server but less than 100 servers. Where’s the “beginner’s guide” to scaling? 1.