Looking for a fresh, 2018 approach to deploying a Rails app to AWS? We've partnered with DailyDrip on a series of videos to guide you through the process. We'll be covering how to Dockerize a Rails app, AWS Fargate, logging, monitoring, and CDN support. In our last video , we ... Read more

What's the 2018 approach to deploying a Rails app to AWS? We've partnered with DailyDrip on a series of videos to guide you through the process. We'll be covering how to Dockerize a Rails app, AWS Fargate, logging, monitoring, and CDN support. Today's video is the next in the series ... Read more

What's the 2018 approach to deploying a Rails app to AWS? We've partnered with DailyDrip on a series of videos to guide you through the process. We'll be covering how to Dockerize a Rails app, AWS Fargate, logging, monitoring, and CDN support. Today, we will be working through a few ... Read more

OH - "Observability - because devs don't like to do "monitoring" we need to package it in new nomenclature to make it palatable and trendy". — Cindy Sridharan (@copyconstruct) July 28, 2017 I think you'll be hearing more about observability in 2018. In this post, I share why I believe ... Read more

Most of a web page's load time is on the front-end. You can monitor the performance of the end-to-end page load time with a Real User Monitoring (RUM) service, and one of the more attractive ones is Raygun Pulse . Let's take a deep dive. Installing Raygun Pulse Installing Pulse ... Read more

Performance in almost all web apps - including Rails - follows an 80/20 rule: most of your performance problems will be contained within a small amount of the application code. Read more

You're probably confused where DataDog and Scout overlap. You're not alone! They've each offered similar products since their inception, and come on, they both have dogs in their logos! Here's a timeline to clear things up: Both Scout (2009) and DataDog (2010) started around the same time and focused on ... Read more

Your Rails app appears to be humming along just fine. But then, out of the blue, one of your most important customers emails your support team: "the site is loading slowly - is something up"? You frantically browse around the site, but everything seems fine. You double-check the charts: things ... Read more

A database is a shared resource for a Rails application. A single misbehaving query hitting your database can slow down unrelated queries throughout your system. When we began running our own database monitoring against our apps, we discovered several expensive queries that weren't apparent when viewing individual web endpoints and ... Read more

Rails Postgres Guru Greg Navis shares another powerful tip. Greg is writing The Ultimate Guide to Deploying Rails on Heroku. Subscribe to his mailing list for performance tips & tricks. In my previous article on Postgres Trigrams , we used pg_trgm to speed up LIKE and other operators (even on ... Read more