Scaling Rails

Episode #9 - Taylor Weibley & Databases

Taylor Weibley is the director of support at Engine Yard, where he’s seen plenty of poorly scaling Rails applications. In this first interview he lets us know about three things we can do today to help our application performance. After his interview I go through some common ways to Scale your Database layer.

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additional resources

Advanced ActiveRecord Envycast contributed
Engine Yard - Where Taylor Works contributed
Masochism - proxy for master/slave connections contributed
DataFabric Gem - For sharding your database contributed
database agnostic != database ignorant contributed
mysqlplus non blocking mysql driver for MRI/KRI contributed
read from slave -- read from slave while writing to master contributed
read as hashes--read directly to hash object for faster active record contributed

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Gregg Pollack is part of the Rails Activist Team and partner at Envy Labs where he produces a podcast, creates educational Ruby videos, and develops websites with Rails.

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