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Let's start by defining request queue time. It's basically how long a request has to "wait" before actual processing begins. This waiting usually happens at your application server after it has passed the reverse proxies and LBs and whatnot. To under...
Some things are always inherently vague, like figuring out the exact amount of salt to put in a dish without a recipe. Setting the concurrency of your app might feel the same way! Without a clear understanding of how concurrency impacts your applicat...
Prelude In my previous blog we tried to analyze what could be the reason behind a Rails app hogging so much memory. Now there are multiple ways to approach this issue from fixing N+1 queries to profiling shady APIs and debugging them, my most fruitfu...
Prologue: The Memory-Hungry Monolith At Anarock, we have a monolithic Rails app that's been consuming a significant amount of memory. After numerous rounds of random profiling and analysis, I felt like I was going nowhere. So, I decided to hit the r...
There are a lot of times when I wonder if writing code using one way would be faster than the other esp now days when there are 10 different ways of doing the same thing. Here is how this can be done in Ruby. Classic way There is the classic way to d...
Inspired by the Rubber Duck Debugging methodology and my love for cats, there is a simple way I try to optimize our Rails App at Anarock Tech. Let's call it the Purrsuit of optimization method for now. It goes something like this: Use a monitoring a...
