Posts tagged #scale

Fastest way to deploy a Rails app!

This is not a new thing by a long shot. But thw fact that it is published by dhh is a big deal imo. For me it assures me to some extent that it is “correct” and that it will be maintained. From author: “Running Rails from Docker for easy start to development - rails/docked: Running Rails from Docker for easy start to development”

A very interesting concept and scenario that affects scale in surprising ways. In the category of everything old is nee again, this was identified and named back in the 1970’s!

From the readme, this is a promising tool for automating deploymeny of apps to s cloud server. Perhaps one more option post Heroku. They dont mention ruby and rails but imply its covered.

help to kill N+1 queries and unused eager loading. Contribute to flyerhzm/bullet development by creating an account on GitHub.

MicroK8s is the simplest production-grade upstream K8s. Lightweight and focused. Single command install on Linux, Windows and macOS. Made for devops, great for edge, appliances and IoT. Full high availability Kubernetes with autonomous clusters.

Actually startups take off because the founders make them take off. There may be a handful that just grew by themselves, but usually it takes some sort of push to get them going. A good metaphor would be the cranks that car engines had before they got electric starters. Once the engine was going, it would keep going, but there was a separate and laborious process to get it going.

Skeleton of a rails app

Tsung demo site

How to build an application with Sinatra, Rack and ActiveRecord?

Excellent advanced info on crating dB indexes, looking at query plans to understand performance.

Detailed tips on what not to do when using rails with docker.

Really really interesting use case for REDIS, and a great scalability pattern

You know I’m into scalability right now. Here’s a short article with lots of the basics.

This looks super useful if you have very large data sets. The Unix shell is surprisingly fast and able to create parallel flows.

Serverless architecture is the new hotness. It sounds good for the right situations but this article argues that it might not be all that.

Always great to see another clarification of this important technique.

This is a useful and detailed guide.

One of many instructions for getting Docker to run a ROS environment on MacOS.

Very nice detailed set of guidelines for a scalable node backend

Looks like another wonderful rails deployment solution. Definitely will check this out as an alternative to Heroku.