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  1. How-To: Quick Rails Benchmarking

    This February 6th we are launching a new workshop: Advanced Rails. The...

    Harold Giménez
    November 2, 2011
    • Web
    • Rails
    • Performance
  2. 7 Minute Ab: Impatient Man's Load Tests For A Heroku App

    A quick way to do a lightweight load test on Heroku.

    Dan Croak
    August 2, 2011
    • Web
    • Heroku
    • Performance
    • Testing
  3. Hoptoad, the Cloud, and the Pond Ahead

    How we’re making Hoptoad scale by using MongoDB.

    Harold Giménez
    March 9, 2011
    • Web
    • Airbrake
    • Performance
    • Rails
  4. Fetching Source Index for http://rubygems.org/

    Why Bundler is slow.

    Nick Quaranto
    January 13, 2011
    • Web
    • Ruby
    • Performance
  5. PostgreSQL Performance Considerations

    Know the Postgres index types such as multicolumn indexes and partial indexes, don’t over-index, use more joins, prefer INNER JOINs, understand the EXPLAIN output, and don’t try to optimize on your development machine.

    Harold Giménez
    January 7, 2011
    • Web
    • Postgres
    • Performance
  6. Hopping in the Cloud

    We made Hoptoad into a distributed system to better scale its traffic.

    Jason Morrison
    March 31, 2010
    • Airbrake
    • Performance
  7. Tuning the Toad

    Performance tweaks on Hoptoad.

    Chad Pytel
    March 27, 2009
    • Web
    • Performance
    • Airbrake
  8. The Accept: header vs. #caches_page

    In this example we’re going to have an XML API on FontsController#index. A...

    Mike Burns
    October 21, 2008
    • Web
    • Rails
    • Performance
  9. offsetHeight especially slow in Firefox for Mac

    offsetHeight has performance problems on one browser.

    Chad Pytel
    October 14, 2006
    • Web
    • JavaScript
    • Performance
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