Ruby on Rails

Last month, 37Signals introduced Thruster, a “zero-config” gem that makes your web pages load faster by solving various problems that would otherwise require changes in multiple places in your infrastructure. This post explains what those problems are, how Thruster solves them, and why you might want to use it even if you have a CDN like Cloudflare in front of your app, which already implements all the features that Thruster offers. 1. Puma is a great application server, but a poor web server B...

Ruby’s garbage collector is designed to be adaptable, scaling from short Ruby scripts to running apps that serve millions of requests per second. While it’s designed to be adaptable, it may not work optimally for every use case. For this reason, Ruby’s garbage collector supports many parameters that can be used to tune it. However, the use of these parameters requires knowledge into how the garbage collector works on the inside. Learn how the Autotuner gem can analyze your app’s traffic and provide suggestions for tuning the garbage collector.