awstewart + performance 98
Scaling a web site using HTTP caching and JS async calls | Merbist
july 2011 by awstewart
Use JavaScript to pull dynamic content from a cookie or via AJAX.
http
cache
performance
july 2011 by awstewart
Let's make the web faster - Google Code
december 2010 by awstewart
Tools for speeding up websites.
web
performance
december 2010 by awstewart
gzip support for Amazon Web Services CloudFront - nomitor
november 2010 by awstewart
With the recent announcement of Custom Origin support in CloudFront it is now possible to use the standard HTTP Accept-Encoding method for serving gzipped content if you are using a Custom Origin.
deployment
performance
cdn
november 2010 by awstewart
Why Rails asset caching is broken in your app and how you can fix it
may 2010 by awstewart
Put hash of file into filename. Don't use timestamps and don't use query strings.
rubyonrails
performance
deployment
may 2010 by awstewart
Lazy Load Plugin for jQuery
april 2010 by awstewart
"It delays loading of images in (long) web pages. Images outside of viewport (visible part of web page) wont be loaded before user scrolls to them."
jquery
performance
april 2010 by awstewart
Optimizing HTML
march 2010 by awstewart
Good list of redundant HTML patterns, and a few anti-patterns.
html
performance
march 2010 by awstewart
Deployment Script Spring Cleaning - GitHub
february 2010 by awstewart
How GitHub achieves 14s deployment times.
rubyonrails
deployment
performance
february 2010 by awstewart
Optimizing asset bundling and serving with Rails - GitHub
january 2010 by awstewart
"Our deploys have almost no frontend consequence unless they intend to (changing css/js)."
rubyonrails
performance
deployment
january 2010 by awstewart
Introducing Friendly: NoSQL With MySQL in Ruby
december 2009 by awstewart
Seems to work well.
performance
mysql
nosql
december 2009 by awstewart
Jammit: Industrial Strength Asset Packaging for Rails
november 2009 by awstewart
Provides both the CSS and JavaScript concatenation and compression that you'd expect, as well as YUI Compressor and Closure Compiler compatibility, ahead-of-time gzipping, built-in JavaScript template support, and optional Data-URI / MHTML image embedding.
rubyonrails
performance
deployment
november 2009 by awstewart
Connect your development code to production database via SSH
june 2009 by awstewart
Be sure to use a user with read-only access to the production db.
performance
june 2009 by awstewart
HTTP Caching
june 2009 by awstewart
Good overview of HTTP caching. Notes from Ryan Tomayko's talk at RailsConf 09.
http
performance
june 2009 by awstewart
Memory-hungry Ruby daemons
june 2009 by awstewart
Tuning REE for better memory usage.
performance
ruby
june 2009 by awstewart
HTTP's Best-Kept Secret: Caching
may 2009 by awstewart
Good slides on HTTP caching, Rails and Rack::Cache.
cache
performance
may 2009 by awstewart
Ruby Proxies for Scale and Monitoring
may 2009 by awstewart
Including transparent sending of production traffic to staging.
deployment
performance
web
ruby
may 2009 by awstewart
Building and Scaling a Startup on Rails: 12 Things We Learned the Hard Way - Axon Flux // A Ruby on Rails Blog
march 2009 by awstewart
Static storage; HTTP cache control; search; MySQL storage engine; fix DB bottlenecks with query_reviewer and New Relic; Memcache later; you're only as fast as your slowest query; offline job queues; monitor everything; read the source; beware old plugins; beware old anything.
rubyonrails
performance
march 2009 by awstewart
ongoing · Tasty Rails ETags
august 2008 by awstewart
Clear explanation of ETags.
etags
performance
http
august 2008 by awstewart
Coding Horror: Reducing Your Website's Bandwidth Usage
august 2008 by awstewart
Useful information.
performance
webserver
august 2008 by awstewart
Bong
august 2008 by awstewart
Hit your website with bong. Uses httperf to run a suite of benchmarking tests against specified urls on your site.
rubyonrails
performance
august 2008 by awstewart
New Relic . Serious about Rails performance
august 2008 by awstewart
Serious performance analysis.
performance
august 2008 by awstewart
Tsung
august 2008 by awstewart
Tsung is an open-source multi-protocol distributed load testing tool.
performance
erlang
august 2008 by awstewart
Rails 2.1: now with better integrated caching
june 2008 by awstewart
It's all built-in. Excellent post on how to use it.
rubyonrails
performance
june 2008 by awstewart
Hueniverse: Scaling a Microblogging Service - Part III
june 2008 by awstewart
Excellent analysis of ramifications of API design.
performance
social_network
api
june 2008 by awstewart
Hueniverse: Scaling a Microblogging Service - Part I
june 2008 by awstewart
Thoughtful analysis of difficulties in scaling a social network.
performance
social_network
june 2008 by awstewart
The sql_logging Debugging Plug-In
may 2008 by awstewart
Good way to see what SQL work your app is doing.
rubyonrails
sql
performance
may 2008 by awstewart
Ruby on Rails Caching Tutorial - Part 2
may 2008 by awstewart
Comprehensive guide to action and fragment caching.
rubyonrails
performance
may 2008 by awstewart
Ruby on Rails Caching Tutorial
may 2008 by awstewart
Comprehensive guide to page caching.
rubyonrails
performance
may 2008 by awstewart
Rapid Rails Part 2: Rapid in the literal sense
april 2008 by awstewart
Some good tips on analysing server status.
performance
server
april 2008 by awstewart
5 more essentials for your programming toolbox
march 2008 by awstewart
Various low-overhead data structures.
compsci
performance
march 2008 by awstewart
What should be in your programming toolbox?
march 2008 by awstewart
Good summary of Bloom filters.
compsci
performance
march 2008 by awstewart
Last 100 meters: Skinny Request, Fat Backend
march 2008 by awstewart
Various reasons to and ways to take requests out of the request-response cycle.
rubyonrails
http
performance
march 2008 by awstewart
Friends for Sale Architecture - A 300 Million Page View/Month Facebook RoR App
february 2008 by awstewart
Interview with developers on how they went about building a high performance app
performance
rubyonrails
february 2008 by awstewart
Segregated page cache storage
february 2008 by awstewart
Separate your cached pages from your ordinary static pages.
rubyonrails
performance
february 2008 by awstewart
Mongrel memory usage
february 2008 by awstewart
A function of size of Rails' production.log
rubyonrails
performance
february 2008 by awstewart
About This Blog: Memcached
january 2008 by awstewart
Auto-expiring cache
rubyonrails
blog
performance
memcached
january 2008 by awstewart
Painless Rails action caching with memcached
december 2007 by awstewart
A variation on the caching theme.
rubyonrails
performance
december 2007 by awstewart
Interlock - Rails caching plugin
december 2007 by awstewart
Makes your view fragments and associated controller blocks march along together.
rubyonrails
performance
december 2007 by awstewart
rake query_trace
november 2007 by awstewart
Rake tasks for turning on and off QueryTrace (pinpoints exact location of slow queries)
rubyonrails
performance
november 2007 by awstewart
Making Rails Wicked Fast: Pagecaching Highly Personalized Web Pages
november 2007 by awstewart
Hmm, not sure about this
performance
rubyonrails
november 2007 by awstewart
Send files faster with X-Sendfile
november 2007 by awstewart
Plugin that gets Apache to send files. This is faster and avoids bloating Mongrel's memory usage.
performance
rubyonrails
apache
november 2007 by awstewart
Client Side Load Balancing for Web 2.0 Applications
october 2007 by awstewart
Used in production with Amazon's S3 and EC2
webserver
performance
october 2007 by awstewart
Scale Rails from one box to three, four and five
august 2007 by awstewart
Excellent article
performance
rubyonrails
august 2007 by awstewart
How to Profile Your Rails Application
july 2007 by awstewart
- with Ruby-prof
performance
rubyonrails
july 2007 by awstewart
Making Rails Go Vroom
july 2007 by awstewart
Example of profiling and optimising
performance
rubyonrails
july 2007 by awstewart
Clever Caching
may 2007 by awstewart
Embracing ETags for the bandwidth savings of HTTP caching and the performance boost of action caching, but without the difficult expiry code
performance
rubyonrails
http
may 2007 by awstewart
leak proof: direct heap instrumentation for bleak_house
may 2007 by awstewart
Better memory profiling
rubyonrails
performance
may 2007 by awstewart
top-secret tuned mysql configurations for rails
may 2007 by awstewart
Make it run better and faster
mysql
performance
may 2007 by awstewart
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