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Articles tagged with #performance
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...
What? There are a lot of ways to generate JSON in rails, from the inbuilt to_json to gems like jbuilder gem or active model serializer. But as responses and data grow in size JSON generation can become a bottleneck for many backend services. In this ...
In this post i'll go through how to write efficient queries for belongs_to associations. I primarly work with Rails so it will focus on that a bit but i'll share the SQL versions too so you can implement similarly everywhere. Example domain model Let...
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...
Context Following my Purrsuit of optimization method a few days ago I noticed a very slow api on New Relic at , it was our one of the slowest due as per the time taken by the database transcations in it, with an avg response time of just above 3.5s a...
