Managing a high performance rails app without tearing your hair out
Category: Web Development > Ruby On Rails      Posted: 07 Jun 08

James Cox shows how to keep a Rails site up and running, while keeping performance high. The presentation dives deep into issues of keeping page perfor...

Action Caching
Category: Web Development > Ruby On Rails      Posted: 22 Feb 08

Action caching behaves much like page caching except it processes the controller filters. You can also make it conditional as seen in this episode

Fragment Caching
Category: Web Development > Ruby On Rails      Posted: 22 Feb 08

Sometimes you only want to cache a section of a page instead of the entire page. Fragment caching is the answer as shown in this episode

Page Caching
Category: Web Development > Ruby On Rails      Posted: 21 Jan 08

Page caching is an efficient way to cache stateless content. In this episode I will show you how to cache the dynamic javascript we created last week

Distributed Caching Essential Lessons
Category: Languages > Java      Posted: 01 Nov 07

In this presentation, recorded at Javapolis, Cameron Purdy shows how to improve application performance & scalability via caching architectures to redu...

Counter Cache Column
Category: Web Development > Ruby On Rails      Posted: 20 May 07

If you need to display the record count for a has_many association, you can improve performance by caching that number in a column.

Caching with Instance Variables
Category: Web Development > Ruby On Rails      Posted: 27 Apr 07

Learn a quick way to improve performance. Just store the end result of an expensive command in an instance variable!