Rails 2.3.3 brings us a new feature called "touch". See how to use this to auto-expire associated caches in this episode.

Use JavaScript to allow dynamic content in a page cache. In this episode I show you how to insert the user-specific content into a page through JavaScript.

Ever want to know what Rails is doing under the hood during a request? In this episode I show three different profiling tools: New Relic RPM, FiveRuns TuneUp, and Rack::Bug.

Today, Andres will be teaching us how to use CSS sprites to improve load times and decrease the number of HTTP requests that are made. As always, feel ...

Rack middleware is a way to filter a request and response coming into your application. In this episode I show how to modify the response body using middleware

Rails Metal is a way to bypass the standard Rails request process for a performance boost. In this episode you will learn how to shave off a few milliseconds using Metal.

Before we can talk about Server-side performance, we need to go over Client-side performance. We're talking about how fast your website comes up in a user's browser

Ruby is great for scripting, what about the heavy-lifting? In this talk we’ll disassemble the lessons learned at AideRSS, and how we’ve optimized our ...

Kirk Pepperdine will give a talk on Performancing Tuning, Kirk Pepperdine is a principle consultant for Kodewerk where he has focused on performance tuning. He has been involved with object technologies and performance for almost 20 years

Mark Thomas, a senior software engineer from SpringSource and the leading contributor to Tomcat security, talks about how security vulnerabilities are handled by the Tomcat team and how end users are served while preventing security problems.

Mark discusses how using an open source projec...

Nicole Sullivan is a website performance specialist and a former member of Yahoo’s Exceptional Performance Team. She is currently writing a book for O’...

Douglas Crockford returns to YUI Theater with another chapter in his evolving lecture series. This session, “Ajax Performance,” debunks common misconce...