Drifting Ruby

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.

background processing performance rails

6 0

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.

benchmark performance ruby

6 0

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.

analytics rails performance

5 1

3 Different Perspectives of Importing Records

#180 Mar 31, 2019 pro

In this episode, we look at 3 different ways of importing data into a Rails application; each having their own use cases, drawbacks and benefits.

rails model performance

12 2

Improving Partial Loading Performance

#145 Aug 5, 2018 free

N+1 queries can make an application slow. Having queries called within views can also slow down an app as well as making it less extendable.

rails performance database

26 1

Ruby Objects and Memoization

#120 Feb 18, 2018 pro

In this episode, we look at creating ruby objects. Then we look at different ways of implementing memoization and how it can be used to speed up our classes.

ruby performance

14 5

Benchmarking and Refactoring the content_for View Helper

#90 Jul 23, 2017 free

In a recent blog post, we looked into the content_for view helper to render breadcrumbs. Once we got the feature working, it's time to refactor the feature to lower technical debt.

rails performance benchmark refactor

6 4

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.

rails search performance

27 18

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.

rails performance background processing

12 0

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.

rails cache performance

15 7

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