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Managing a high performance rails app without tearing your hair out
Presented by James Cox on Jan 08, 2008 09:40 AM
- Community
- Ruby
- Topics
- Ruby on Rails ,
- Performance & Scalability
- Tags
- Caching ,
- Database ,
- QCon ,
- Qcon London 2007 ,
- Ruby on Rails ,
- Scalability
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Summary
James Cox shows how to keep a Rails site up and running, while keeping performance high. The presentation dives deep into issues of keeping page performance up and avoiding bottlenecks. Next to tips on what to avoid (eg, hostname lookups) and what to do (eg. pre-caching), James also shows situations when to avoid ActiveRecord and fall back to SQL.
Bio
James Cox is the founder of smokeclouds, a UK based Ruby/Rails and scalability consultancy. He focuses on the architecture and usability of web applications. He has wide-ranging experience diving into legacy code, helping small sites bloom into big trees and generally trying to stay out of the way.
About the conference
QCon is a conference that is organized by the community, for the community.The result is a high quality conference experience where a tremendous amount of attention and investment has gone into having the best content on the most important topics presented by the leaders in our community.QCon is designed with the technical depth and enterprise focus of interest to technical team leads, architects, and project managers.
James Cox shows how to keep a Rails site up and running, while keeping performance high. The presentation dives deep into issues of keeping page performance up and avoiding bottlenecks. Next to tips on what to avoid (eg, hostname lookups) and what to do (eg. pre-caching), James also shows situations when to avoid ActiveRecord and fall back to SQL.
Bio
James Cox is the founder of smokeclouds, a UK based Ruby/Rails and scalability consultancy. He focuses on the architecture and usability of web applications. He has wide-ranging experience diving into legacy code, helping small sites bloom into big trees and generally trying to stay out of the way.
About the conference
QCon is a conference that is organized by the community, for the community.The result is a high quality conference experience where a tremendous amount of attention and investment has gone into having the best content on the most important topics presented by the leaders in our community.QCon is designed with the technical depth and enterprise focus of interest to technical team leads, architects, and project managers.
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