Posts Tagged ‘performance’

Reviewing Application Health with HAProxy Stats

One of the methods we use for checking the health of our applications is stats collected from HAProxy. We utilize it to see how many requests are scheduled for execution on mongrel instances. The graph is one indication of how our applications perform. When we launched the new version of the site three weeks ago, [...]

JRuby trunk == better/faster Rails performance

So I remember a couple months ago playing with JRuby, and while fibonacci was super fast, Rails was way off.. ActiveRecord performance 6x-10x slower than MRI…
Looks like its getting better. Disclaimer: These are really really simple non-scientific tests.
Local mysql database, MYISAM, table people, with 2 columns, (id, name). 100k rows

> jruby -J-server -O [...]