This my help: http://railslab.newrelic.com/scaling-rails
On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 6:37 AM, Audrey Lee <[email protected]>wrote: > Rails Scalability and Performance! > > This is an interesting topic. > > I am very interested in what is "state of the art" yet safe for production. > > I just looked for Rails performance tuning books at Amazon.com > > I found 1 which looks a little dated but probably still useful: > > Enterprise Rails by Dan Chak > > I looked over the table of contents. > > It looks like Dan Chak likes to extract performance gains using > caching and tuning the database (PostgreSQL). > > I expanded my search to "websites" in general: > > http://www.google.com/search?q=website+performance+tuning+books > > Another thing which caught my eye is this: > > http://heroku.com/how/architecture > > From that URL I would be tempted to follow these lines of inquiry: > > http://docs.heroku.com/http-caching > http://www.google.com/search?q=nginx > http://www.google.com/search?q=gzip+compression > http://www.google.com/search?q=varnish+http+cache > http://www.google.com/search?q=routing+mesh > http://www.google.com/search?q=load+balancer > http://www.google.com/search?q=compiled+ruby > http://www.google.com/search?q=ruby+vm > http://www.google.com/search?q=thin+based+on+mongrel > http://www.google.com/search?q=rack+middleware > http://www.google.com/search?q=Rails+on+PostgreSQL > http://www.google.com/search?q=PostgreSQL+Replication > http://www.google.com/search?q=PostgreSQL+performance+tuning > http://www.google.com/search?q=Memcached > http://www.google.com/search?q=Routing+to+Memcached+instead+of+database > > More obvious URLs: > > http://www.google.com/search?q=rails+performance > > http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk/search?q=performance+tuning&start=0&scoring=d&; > http://www.google.com/search?q=rails+performance+site%3Atwitter.com > > Oh and then we have EY: > > http://www.engineyard.com/blog/?s=performance > http://www.engineyard.com/technology > http://www.engineyard.com/technology/ror > http://www.engineyard.com/technology/webapps > http://www.engineyard.com/technology/datastores > http://www.engineyard.com/technology/stack > > > On 12/14/09, barce wrote: > > Hey Folks, > > > > What are the key ways of scaling a Rails site? > > > > I've used solr to take the load off on forums. > > I've also used memcache to take care of selects used just merely to get a > > count, e.g. select count(id) from users. > > I've used gearman but in a PHP context. :-P Anybody use it in a ruby > > context? > > > > The logic free (i.e. db free) views in mustache help a lot with reads: > > http://github.com/defunkt/mustache > > > > But what about writes? > > > > What have been your greatest scalability challenges? How have you > overcome > > them? > > > > Cheers, Barce > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > Please Note: If you hit "REPLY", your message will be sent to everyone on > > this mailing list ([email protected]) > > http://www.meetup.com/sfruby/ > > This message was sent by barce ([email protected]) from The San Francisco > Ruby > > Meetup Group. > > To learn more about barce, visit his/her member profile: > > http://www.meetup.com/sfruby/members/1026970/ > > To unsubscribe or to update your mailing list settings, click here: > > http://www.meetup.com/account/comm/ > > Meetup Inc. PO Box 4668 #37895 New York, New York 10163-4668 | > > [email protected] > > > > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]<rubyonrails-talk%[email protected]> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en. > > > -- Andrei Erdoss -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en.
