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Build Rails applications that scale. Discover the small changes that make a big difference in efficiency. Design applications for performance from the start.

Rails doesn't scale. So say the naysayers. They’re wrong. Ruby on Rails runs some of the biggest sites in the world, impacting the lives of millions of users while efficiently crunching petabyte...

Build Rails applications that scale. Discover the small changes that make a big difference in efficiency. Design applications for performance from the start.

Allocations count is often an interesting proxy for performance, but not necessarily the most relevant thing to include in request logs, given they aren't a per thread metric, so the reporting ...

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Build Rails applications that scale. Discover the small changes that make a big difference in efficiency. Design applications for performance from the start.

This is the perspective of one lowly engineer who cared too much. For context, I spent 6 years at Airbnb from 2016 to 2022, first as a senior engineer, then an engineering manager and finally as a sta...