Ruby, the ever-so-popular scripting language and Rails – one of the leading web application frameworks are prone to serious performance issues if not served efficiently. Enter unicorn, a high performance replacement for mongrels and such. And of course, my goto tool for all things http: nginx. This is a short step-by-step detailed guide to achieving [...]
Ok so it all started like this: Bunch of web servers, all the same model (Dell R710), all functioning properly – however two of them are faster then the others (40% lower response time AND lower load average). Average connections to all the machines was identical. Hardware: Identical Software: Identical (to eliminate this as an [...]
The problem that this program was designed to solve is a rapidly changing MySQL table in use by a high-traffic website. For instance, stock quotes on the front page of a bank’s or investments firm’s site. The data is constantly updated by a service on the backend, and is referred to by some ajax widget [...]