Searchkick and Elasticsearch
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Searchkick and Elasticsearch

#65 Jan 29, 2017 free
Add full text searching using Searchkick and Elasticsearch. Here I will show the steps involved in adding this search to an existing application and a sample of autocomplete functionality.

Redis Basics
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Redis Basics

#56 Nov 28, 2016 free
Redis within a Ruby on Rails application has many benefits. Learn to interact with Redis Server and set it up for caching within your application.

Sidekiq Basics
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Sidekiq Basics

#59 Dec 18, 2016 free
Sidekiq is a Ruby Background Processor that manages its queue with a Redis service. Learn the basics of Sidekiq and integrating it with ActiveJob.

Benchmark Ruby Code
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Benchmark Ruby Code

#262 Oct 4, 2020 free
It's easy to accidentally write slow code in our applications. In this episode, we look at how we can benchmark our code and examples of some methods which are slower than others.

Speeding Up Requests
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Speeding Up Requests

#322 Nov 7, 2021 free
In this episode, we look at several issues around pagination and different kinds of querying that could affect performance when working with large datasets.