ActiveSupport::Notifications
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ActiveSupport::Notifications

#409 Jul 9, 2023 pro
In this episode, we'll dive into ActiveSupport::Notifications to perform simple metrics. We'll then use this technique to troubleshoot and pinpoint where slow running lines of code are. It can be a great debugging technique when trying to deal with slow requests or functions.

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.

Cache Warming
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Cache Warming

#273 Dec 13, 2020 pro
Caching is a great way to speed up your applications. However, when a cache becomes stale, there could be a user experience degradation until the cache is rebuilt. In this episode, we look at implementing a background job to rebuild the cache.

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.

Application Performance Monitoring in Rails
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Application Performance Monitoring in Rails

#185 Apr 28, 2019 pro
Monitoring your application's performance is an important part of knowing its health. In this episode, we look at three popular services.