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Scaling Rails

On The Edge - Part 3

On The Edge - Part 2

On The Edge - Part 1

Scaling Your Database - Part 2

Scaling Your Database - Part 1

Load Testing - Part 2

Load Testing - Part 1

Rack & Metal

Jim Gochee & Advanced RPM

Jesse Newland & Deployment

Advanced HTTP Caching

Client-side Caching

Taylor Weibley & Databases

Memcached

Fragment Caching

Action Caching

Advanced Page Caching

New Relic RPM

Cache Expiration

Page Caching

Page Responsiveness

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Episode #17 - Scaling Your Database - Part 1

If the bottleneck of your application is your database even after caching as much as possible, what can you do? This is the first of two screencasts where we’re going to learn about techniques for increasing the power of your Database. In this first video we learn how to grow our database step by step using both vertical and horizontal scaling.

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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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