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Hacking Your Webpage's Head Tags for Speed and Profit
Most of us developers settle for page load times somewhere between 3 and 7 seconds. We open up the graph in NewRelic or webpagetest.org, sigh, and then. -
Ludicrously Fast Page Loads - A Guide for Full-Stack Devs
Server response times, while easy to track and instrument, are ultimately a meaningless performance metric from an end-user perspective. Actual end-use. -
100ms to Glass with Rails and Turbolinks
A perceived benefit of a client-side JS framework is the responsiveness of its interface - updates to the UI are instantaneous. A large amount of appli. -
rack-mini-profiler - the Secret Weapon of Ruby and Rails Speed
rack-mini-profiler is a powerful Swiss army knife for Rack app performance. Measure SQL queries, memory allocation and CPU time.rack-mini-profiler is a. -
Secrets to Speedy Ruby Apps On Heroku
I’ve seen a lot of slow Ruby web apps. Sometimes, it feels like my entire consulting career has been a slow accumulation of downward-sloping New Relic . -
Speed Up Your Rails App by 66% - The Complete Guide to Rails Caching
Caching in a Rails app is a little bit like that one friend you sometimes have around for dinner, but should really have around more often.Caching in a.
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How to Measure Ruby App Performance with New Relic
New Relic is a great tool for getting the overview of the performance bottlenecks of a Ruby application. But it's pretty extensive - where do you start. -
How Changing WebFonts Made Rubygems.org 10x Faster
I’m passionate about fast websites. That’s a corny thing to say, I realize - it’s something you’d probably read on a resume, next to a description of h. -
Malloc Can Double Multi-threaded Ruby Program Memory Usage
It’s not every day that a simple configuration change can completely solve a problem.I had a client whose Sidekiq processes were using a lot of memory . -
Why Your Rails App is Slow: Lessons Learned from 3000 Hours of Teaching
For the last 4 years, I’ve been working on making Rails applications faster and more scalable. I teach workshops, I sell a course, and I consult. If yo.