Rails Scales! : Practical Techniques for Performance and Growth.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Planas, Cristian.

Series:

Pragmatic programmers.

Facets of Ruby series.

The pragmatic programmers

Facets of Ruby series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ruby on rails (Electronic resource).

Application software--Development.

Application software.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (300 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

La Vergne : Pragmatic Programmers, LLC, The, 2025.

Summary:

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 petabytes of data. This book reveals how they do it, and how you can apply the same techniques to your applications. Optimize everything necessary to make an application function at scale: monitoring, product design, Ruby code, software architecture, database access, caching, and more. Even if your app may never have millions of users, you reduce the costs of hosting and maintaining it. Optimize every aspect of your Ruby on Rails applications for world-class performance. Tweak your Rails app for snappy responsiveness. Find bottlenecks that slow your code. Scale an app for massive data sets. This book introduces techniques, patterns, and tricks to make your Rails application become more performant and scale to billions of requests per day. And it does it in an entertaining and fun way, sharing real-life stories of all kinds: tales from the trenches of working on massive Rails apps, and anecdotes from working on much smaller projects in tiny organizations of a handful of engineers. Through all these experiences you will learn that scaling Rails applications is a multifaceted task, including aspects such as monitoring, query tuning, and memory-aware coding. This book is for programmers of all levels of experience, from beginners to experienced Rails veterans. You can even show your nontechnical colleagues the features and limitations of Rails at scale. Reading this book will help you make Rails applications that fly. And it will make you enjoy the process.

Contents:

Cover

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

We Need to Talk About the Rails Learning Curve

Techniques for a Rails Renaissance

About This Book

1. Setting Up Your Machine

Understanding the Application Database Setup

Downloading the Application

Setting Up Ruby

Installing the Database(s) and the Caching Stores

Setting Up Rails

Loading the Example Dataset

Summing Up

2. Optimizing Data Access with ActiveRecord

Managing Data the Rails Way

Removing n+1s and Preloading Data

Discovering Wide Fetching and Narrow Fetching

Explaining EXPLAIN

Indexing

3. Understanding All the Faces of Caching

Caching and Denormalizing

Using counter_cache in Rails

Setting Up Your Caching

Using Fragment Caching

Using Russian Doll Caching

Writing Your Own Caching

Using Write-Through Caching

Implementing Fan-Out Writing

Using Action Caching and Page Caching

Adding a Cache Layer to ActiveRecord

Choosing a Storage System for Your Cache

Using Denormalization

4. Designing a Scalable API

Paginating Your Endpoints

Discovering Cursor-Based Pagination

Splitting Your Model Data

Implementing Sideloads

Using GraphQL

5. Tracking the Lifecycle of a Request

Crossing the Internet with One Request

Using HTTP Headers to Speed Up Your Application

Introducing CDNs

6. Thinking Architecture for Performance

Discovering Sharding

Improving Your Response Time with Asynchronous Processing

Getting Started with Event-Driven Microservice Architectures

7. Designing Product for Performance

Setting Product Limits

Managing the Life of Your Data

Doing Things That Don't Scale

Increasing Your Usability Time

8. Monitoring Performance to Build Scalable Systems.

Choosing and Installing Your Observability Platform

Monitoring (Almost) All the Things!

Building Your Own Dashboards

Setting Up Performance Error Budgets

Being Wary of How Much You Spend

9. Scaling, Beyond Performance

Setting Up Ownership for Your Application

Modularizing Your Application

Using Feature Flags for Better Rollouts

10. The Next 20 Years with Rails

Scaling with Human-First Technology

Index

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Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

Other Format:

Print version: Planas, Cristian Rails Scales!

ISBN:

9798888651681

OCLC:

1526841859