We're pleased to announce our newest screencast video on Learn, Improving Performance for Real-time Requests .
This video, with thoughtbot CTO Joe Ferris, shows you how to tune performance using a real world example. Starting with an action that takes 3 seconds to respond and performs over 1600 database queries, Joe is able to reduce response time to 300ms and drop database usage to just 5 queries.
This video specifically focuses on what Joe calls ‘real-time requests'. …
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In this week's podcast we try something a little different. Joe Ferris, Matt Jankowski, Ben Orenstein, and Chad Pytel get together and have a little fun, in what we're calling " Tiny Robots cuddling with other Tiny Robots".
We'd love to get your thoughts on this special format, tweet us @ thoughtbot or email learn@thoughtbot.com .
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Hey Denver! Our CTO, Joe Ferris, is going to be in Denver next week and we'd like to have a beer with you. We'll be joining some of our friends over at SendGrid in their spiffy Denver office for good local beer and a talk on " Improving Performance for Real-Time Requests".
Joe will be schooling us on how to improve slow requests, avoid duplication, invalidate caches, and refactor for performance within Rails applications.
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