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Let's Scale Ruby Applications with Love

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July 26, 2019
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Let's Scale Ruby Applications with Love

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July 26, 2019
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Transcript

  1. LET’S SCALE RUBY APPLICATIONS WITH ❤

  2. WHO AM I ?

  3. None

  4. GitHub: berniechiu Twitter: berniechiu_tw Software Engineer @

  5. OVERVIEW • Ruby and API • Ruby and Database •

    Ruby and Network • Ruby and… just Ruby

  6. WHAT MATTERS?

  7. AVERAGES?

  8. –DHH 「1000 requests that return in 5ms, and 200 requests

    taking 2,000 ms, still get a respectable 170ms average」

  9. Only Very Happy & Very Unhappy Credit from : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VPYP7oJJPdo

  10. TUNE YOUR DESIRED METRICS

  11. SO WHAT MATTERS? • Popular endpoints • Slow response times

  12. None

  13. RUBY WEB + API

  14. RESTFUL ENTHUSIASM

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  18. EVEN MORE DATA?

  19. • github.com/zdennis/activerecord-import • github.com/jamis/bulk_insert

  20. ALWAYS KNOW WHAT RUNS UNDER RUBY

  21. RUBY DATABASE + PAGINATIONS

  22. None

  23. Performance Impact

  24. For example - Kaminari

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  28. KEEPING USER NAVIGATIONS INTACT?

  29. Prefetched Count

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  33. ITERATIONS FROM ACTIVERECORD

  34. FIND EACH FIND IN BATCHES • Memory saving • Fetch

    limited rows on each batch/iteration • Won’t lock the whole table

  35. BUT!

  36. WORKING WITH UUID?

  37. None

  38. UUID V4 IS SORTABLE?

  39. Credit from: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.6/uuid-ossp.html

  40. Credit From: GitLab CE Custom Implementations

  41. SPEED REGAIN

  42. RUBY LIBRARIES + NETWORK

  43. TYPES OF CACHING

  44. SKIPPING TO…

  45. LOCALLY FETCHED

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  49. WAIT…FIXED FOREVER FOR FIXED FOR A PERIOD

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  51. NO CODE CONNECTION IS FAST CODE

  52. Connection Takes Time

  53. COPE WITH USE CASES

  54. RUBY X THREE

  55. BENCHMARKING

  56. TOOLS FOR PARTIAL CODE https://github.com/evanphx/benchmark-ips https://github.com/jondot/benchmark-ipsa

  57. WHY NOT NATIVE • Only few iterations runs with Benchmark.bm

    or Benchmark.bmbm • Display time factors instead and need to guess a random iteration counts
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  61. TEST YOUR THEORY

  62. TEST YOUR THEORY Constantized One Time Calculation

  63. TEST YOUR THEORY

  64. TEST YOUR THEORY

  65. SEQUEL GEM https://github.com/jeremyevans/sequel

  66. EVERYONE CAN CONTRIBUTE

  67. FLAME GRAPHS FROM API

  68. TOOLS?

  69. RACK MINI PROFILER

  70. AN ISSUE?

  71. None
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  73. HTML

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  80. VERIFY!

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  82. LOAD TEST!

  83. BEWARE! • APIs might have different result in different params

    body • Test with the most common set from online metrics or your own tracking

  84. 調效能就跟洗浴缸⼀一樣，拔掉 那個塞⼦子，⽔水很快就流光了了

  85. HAPPY HACKING

  86. QA