Better WebPerformance with Rails — Stefan Wintermeyer at wroclove.rb 2018

Nodes (45)

create Cache Preheating concept

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description (empty) → Because writing the first cache entry on a user request is expensive, a regional site can use cron during off-hours t...

short_description (empty) → Using cron to brute-force rebuild caches ahead of user requests.

create Heroku tool

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description (empty) → De-facto standard PaaS for Rails; easy to start but comparatively slow and expensive as the app grows. Speaker recomm...

short_description (empty) → Ruby-friendly PaaS for deploying web applications.

create Phoenix tool

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description (empty) → Elixir web framework cited as dramatically faster than Rails (~10ms without caching for equivalent work). Speaker sug...

short_description (empty) → Elixir web framework known for low-latency request handling.

create Elixir tool

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description (empty) → Language underlying the Phoenix framework. Mentioned as super fast and easy to test compared to Ruby.

short_description (empty) → Functional, concurrent language on the BEAM VM.

update Better WebPerformance with Rails talk

description Talk at wroclove.rb 2018. → Stefan Wintermeyer's talk at wroclove.rb 2018 on why the first page load must fit within a ~1-second budget and how t...

short_description Talk at wroclove.rb 2018. → Talk on Rails 5.2 web performance, caching, and sub-second page loads.

update Stefan Wintermeyer person

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description Conference speaker. → Conference speaker, Rails consultant (adesh consulting), and author of books on Ruby on Rails. Delivered 'Better WebP...

short_description Conference speaker. → Ruby/Rails consultant, author, and conference speaker focused on web performance.

create Page Load Time Budget concept

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description (empty) → The idea that a web page's first render should ideally complete in under one second, because users bounce rapidly aft...

short_description (empty) → Target of keeping first-page render under one second, including mobile 3G.

create TCP Slow Start concept

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description (empty) → TCP begins each connection with a small congestion window (~14KB first packet), then doubles each round-trip until er...

short_description (empty) → TCP congestion-control mechanism where bandwidth ramps up from ~14KB.

create Waterfall Analysis concept

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description (empty) → A waterfall chart shows each resource request (HTML, CSS, JS, images) with timing bands for DNS, connect, TLS, TTFB, ...

short_description (empty) → Browser request timeline used to diagnose web-performance bottlenecks.

create Fragment Caching concept

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description (empty) → Rails view-level cache that stores rendered fragments keyed on a record. In the talk, wrapping each product row in a ...

short_description (empty) → Caching rendered view fragments keyed by model to skip re-rendering.

create Russian Doll Caching concept

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description (empty) → Caching strategy where both the collection and its inner items are cached; when an inner cache is still valid, the ou...

short_description (empty) → Nested fragment caches where outer caches reuse valid inner caches.

create HTTP Caching with ETag and Last-Modified concept

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description (empty) → Browser sends stored ETag / If-Modified-Since; if still valid, server responds 304, saving both bandwidth and server-...

short_description (empty) → Conditional HTTP requests that return 304 Not Modified to skip re-rendering.

create Static Page Caching via nginx concept

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name (empty) → Static Page Caching via nginx

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description (empty) → By writing pre-rendered HTML (and pre-compressed .gz files) into Rails' public/cache directory, nginx can serve reque...

short_description (empty) → Serving pre-rendered, pre-gzipped HTML directly from nginx without touching Rails.

create Preloading and Prefetching concept

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description (empty) → Header hints like dns-prefetch, preload, prefetch, and prerender let the page tell the browser to resolve DNS or fetc...

short_description (empty) → HTML link hints telling browsers to fetch DNS/resources in advance.

create HTTP/2 Server Push concept

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description (empty) → HTTP/2 feature allowing the server to push files to the client without a request. Powerful but tricky — the talk warn...

short_description (empty) → Server proactively pushing resources before the client requests them.

create Performance Time Budget concept

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name (empty) → Performance Time Budget

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description (empty) → An explicit, team-agreed ceiling (e.g. 2 seconds) for page load. Called out as the single most important tool: it giv...

short_description (empty) → Organizational commitment to a page-load ceiling used to defend against feature bloat.

create nginx tool

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description (empty) → Web server used in the talk to serve pre-rendered, pre-gzipped Rails cache pages directly from public/cache without c...

short_description (empty) → High-performance HTTP server and reverse proxy.

create Apache HTTP Server tool

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name (empty) → Apache HTTP Server

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description (empty) → Alternative to nginx for fronting Rails. Speaker says it doesn't matter which you pick; he personally prefers nginx.

short_description (empty) → Widely-deployed open-source HTTP server.

create HTTP/2 tool

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description (empty) → Recommended as an easy ~20% performance win over HTTP/1.1 with a one-line nginx config change. Works best with a sing...

short_description (empty) → Binary, multiplexed successor to HTTP/1.1.

create Brotli tool

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description (empty) → Compression algorithm supported by all major browsers (Safari, Chrome, Firefox, Edge). Provides ~10–20% performance b...

short_description (empty) → HTTP compression algorithm with better ratios than gzip.

create gzip tool

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description (empty) → Standard HTTP compression. nginx can gzip on the fly, but pre-gzipping cached files saves CPU and time at request time.

short_description (empty) → Ubiquitous HTTP compression algorithm.

create webpagetest.org tool

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description (empty) → Public web-performance testing service used in the talk to show waterfall charts of the conference homepage and compa...

short_description (empty) → Online service for measuring web performance and producing waterfalls.

create Active Storage tool

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description (empty) → Rails 5.2 feature for managing image/file uploads. The talk recommends using it to generate multiple image output for...

short_description (empty) → Rails framework for attaching files/images to models.

create WebP tool

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description (empty) → Modern image format that can be served to supporting browsers (e.g. Chrome) via Active Storage to reduce image payloa...

short_description (empty) → Efficient image format by Google with smaller file sizes.

create Ruby tool

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description (empty) → The language Rails is built on. The talk emphasizes Ruby is inherently slow and upgrading to Ruby 2.5 can yield rough...

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create Akamai tool

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description (empty) → Example CDN/edge service that handles image compression and delivers optimal variants per client. Considered a conven...

short_description (empty) → Commercial CDN offering caching, compression, and image optimization.

create Faker tool

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description (empty) → Used in the talk's seeds.rb to populate the sample webshop (products, categories, users, reviews) with realistic samp...

short_description (empty) → Ruby gem generating realistic fake data for seeds and tests.

create adesh consulting company

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create Google company

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description (empty) → Referenced for a classic experiment slowing search response time by 100ms for a user subgroup; over weeks, bounce/beh...

short_description (empty) → Search and cloud company whose latency experiments are cited.

create Rails 5.2 tool

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description (empty) → Rails release used throughout the talk's sample webshop. Ships Active Storage and defaults that enable Russian-doll c...

short_description (empty) → Version of Ruby on Rails with Active Storage and Russian-doll caching defaults.

create High Performance Browser Networking resource

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description (empty) → Recommended as the 'web performance Bible' — a framework-agnostic reference covering the network stack, graphic forma...

short_description (empty) → Reference book on web/network performance by Ilya Grigorik.

create Stefan Wintermeyer's Rails 5.2 Book resource

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create Set a page-load time budget takeaway

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description (empty) → The single most important web-performance tool is agreeing on a concrete time budget (e.g. 2 seconds) and using it as...

short_description (empty) → Define an explicit page-load ceiling organization-wide.

create Prefer DB-derived columns over recomputed values takeaway

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description (empty) → Instead of recomputing aggregates like a product's star rating on every render, store them as columns updated via aft...

short_description (empty) → Store rarely-changing derived values (e.g. number_of_stars) in the DB via callbacks.

create Keep cache keys simple takeaway

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description (empty) → Warning from experience: elaborately-constructed cache keys can take longer to compute than rendering the view withou...

short_description (empty) → Complex cache keys can cost more to compute than the render they save.

create Use touch: true for fragment cache invalidation takeaway

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description (empty) → When caching a parent fragment that depends on child records (e.g. reviews of a product), the child's belongs_to must...

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description (empty) → Turning on HTTP/2 is a one-line nginx config change that yields roughly 20% performance improvement; prefer a single ...

short_description (empty) → Enable HTTP/2 in nginx for a ~20% boost with minimal effort.

create Prefer Brotli over gzip when available takeaway

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description (empty) → All major browsers support Brotli; enabling it alongside gzip offers better compression ratios and lower server CPU, ...

short_description (empty) → Brotli saves 10–20% bytes and CPU vs gzip, with automatic gzip fallback.

create Serve preheated static pages via nginx takeaway

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description (empty) → For maximum speed, write fully-rendered (and pre-compressed) HTML to the public/cache directory during off-peak cron ...

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description (empty) → Keeping Ruby on the latest stable release is a trivial way to reclaim performance; the speaker cites roughly 10% gain...

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create CDN is not always the answer takeaway

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description (empty) → CDNs matter for globally-distributed traffic (e.g. firmware rollouts), but for regional apps with ~1M users they ofte...

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create Is rendering from cached pages with server-side includes possible in Rails? question

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create Does caching still help for complex apps with many models? question

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create Better WebPerformance with Rails → about → Waterfall Analysis

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context (empty) → Primary caching technique demonstrated.

relation (empty) → about

source_node_id (empty) → 8a072c53-4edf-401f-8a73-78d7e3b1e763

target_node_id (empty) → e5570dc6-83ab-4f05-bf5d-1a5b8e93d9e6

create Better WebPerformance with Rails → about → Russian Doll Caching

context (empty) → Extends fragment caching to nested caches.

relation (empty) → about

source_node_id (empty) → 8a072c53-4edf-401f-8a73-78d7e3b1e763

target_node_id (empty) → bb9e003c-f613-4427-9a5d-13093f705d50

create Better WebPerformance with Rails → about → HTTP Caching with ETag and Last-Modified

context (empty) → Demonstrates fresh_when for 304 responses.

relation (empty) → about

source_node_id (empty) → 8a072c53-4edf-401f-8a73-78d7e3b1e763

target_node_id (empty) → 265c76a9-3f4c-4741-a7e5-0e58f131c9bb

create Better WebPerformance with Rails → about → Cache Preheating

context (empty) → Uses cron to pre-populate caches overnight.

relation (empty) → about

source_node_id (empty) → 8a072c53-4edf-401f-8a73-78d7e3b1e763

target_node_id (empty) → 99428f5f-05de-416f-9625-11b9f38c919c

create Better WebPerformance with Rails → about → Static Page Caching via nginx

context (empty) → Describes writing cached pages to public/cache for nginx to serve directly.

relation (empty) → about

source_node_id (empty) → 8a072c53-4edf-401f-8a73-78d7e3b1e763

target_node_id (empty) → 33cd1002-0945-428e-8ee7-464137a06ed2

create Better WebPerformance with Rails → about → Preloading and Prefetching

context (empty) → Covers dns-prefetch, preload, prefetch, prerender hints.

relation (empty) → about

source_node_id (empty) → 8a072c53-4edf-401f-8a73-78d7e3b1e763

target_node_id (empty) → 48235abe-6f2b-44bf-8ea8-ee16f31ab351

create Better WebPerformance with Rails → about → HTTP/2 Server Push

context (empty) → Notes server push is powerful but tricky.

relation (empty) → about

source_node_id (empty) → 8a072c53-4edf-401f-8a73-78d7e3b1e763

target_node_id (empty) → e0dd4355-3b4c-4720-85dc-9d9ee4e1e7aa

create Better WebPerformance with Rails → about → Phoenix

context (empty) → Referenced as a much faster alternative for greenfield projects.

relation (empty) → about

source_node_id (empty) → 8a072c53-4edf-401f-8a73-78d7e3b1e763

target_node_id (empty) → 14a5108f-b80c-44ea-b8a1-fb8fbf5812e4

create Better WebPerformance with Rails → about → Elixir

context (empty) → Language underlying Phoenix, noted as fast and easy to test.

relation (empty) → about

source_node_id (empty) → 8a072c53-4edf-401f-8a73-78d7e3b1e763

target_node_id (empty) → ea3e988a-8cb9-4418-a809-6f894b77c081

create Better WebPerformance with Rails → about → Ruby

context (empty) → Notes Ruby's speed ceiling and upgrade gains.

relation (empty) → about

source_node_id (empty) → 8a072c53-4edf-401f-8a73-78d7e3b1e763

target_node_id (empty) → c7f25b33-06c9-460e-aca7-fe993123ebee

create Better WebPerformance with Rails → about → Akamai

context (empty) → CDN example discussed in Q&A.

relation (empty) → about

source_node_id (empty) → 8a072c53-4edf-401f-8a73-78d7e3b1e763

target_node_id (empty) → c62968bb-915c-446f-8d4c-3519776232d8

create Better WebPerformance with Rails → about → Faker

context (empty) → Used to seed the sample webshop.

relation (empty) → about

source_node_id (empty) → 8a072c53-4edf-401f-8a73-78d7e3b1e763

target_node_id (empty) → 52317669-ba75-49db-915b-af5132786399

create Better WebPerformance with Rails → about → Google

context (empty) → Cites Google latency experiment showing 100ms slowdown changes user behavior.

relation (empty) → about

source_node_id (empty) → 8a072c53-4edf-401f-8a73-78d7e3b1e763

target_node_id (empty) → e4742ca5-3cbb-4688-baae-f26d90b4226b

create Better WebPerformance with Rails → about → High Performance Browser Networking

context (empty) → Recommends as the deeper follow-up reference.

relation (empty) → about

source_node_id (empty) → 8a072c53-4edf-401f-8a73-78d7e3b1e763

target_node_id (empty) → 09496535-92a3-413b-87e1-d71d6505ee86

create Better WebPerformance with Rails → about → Stefan Wintermeyer's Rails 5.2 Book

context (empty) → Promoted at the end of the talk.

relation (empty) → about

source_node_id (empty) → 8a072c53-4edf-401f-8a73-78d7e3b1e763

target_node_id (empty) → 9308c5d1-0cb2-4354-bb5c-e174dadfe15e

create Stefan Wintermeyer → recommends → High Performance Browser Networking

context (empty) → Called it the 'web performance Bible'.

relation (empty) → recommends

source_node_id (empty) → 1a3c4d6f-185c-46fe-b843-15dba68dc025

target_node_id (empty) → 09496535-92a3-413b-87e1-d71d6505ee86

create Stefan Wintermeyer → recommends → HTTP/2

context (empty) → Recommends enabling HTTP/2 for a ~20% boost.

relation (empty) → recommends

source_node_id (empty) → 1a3c4d6f-185c-46fe-b843-15dba68dc025

target_node_id (empty) → 09bad78e-f8a8-4348-a1ef-1dce44d689a5

create Stefan Wintermeyer → recommends → Brotli

context (empty) → Recommends Brotli over gzip where supported.

relation (empty) → recommends

source_node_id (empty) → 1a3c4d6f-185c-46fe-b843-15dba68dc025

target_node_id (empty) → a02f5458-efb6-4935-9754-ad96a3c66aa4

create Stefan Wintermeyer → recommends → nginx

context (empty) → Prefers nginx for serving pre-cached, pre-gzipped pages.

relation (empty) → recommends

source_node_id (empty) → 1a3c4d6f-185c-46fe-b843-15dba68dc025

target_node_id (empty) → 29651d23-1c51-4579-9ac2-30a89b8a3c7f

create Stefan Wintermeyer → recommends → Active Storage

context (empty) → Recommends for serving modern image formats.

relation (empty) → recommends

source_node_id (empty) → 1a3c4d6f-185c-46fe-b843-15dba68dc025

target_node_id (empty) → 2834fe94-5598-4e2b-ae0f-322d38f50180

create Stefan Wintermeyer → recommends → Phoenix

context (empty) → Suggests Phoenix for greenfield projects needing top speed.

relation (empty) → recommends

source_node_id (empty) → 1a3c4d6f-185c-46fe-b843-15dba68dc025

target_node_id (empty) → 14a5108f-b80c-44ea-b8a1-fb8fbf5812e4

create Stefan Wintermeyer → recommends → Performance Time Budget

context (empty) → Calls budget-setting the single most important tool.

relation (empty) → recommends

source_node_id (empty) → 1a3c4d6f-185c-46fe-b843-15dba68dc025

target_node_id (empty) → 0135bc8b-2f02-48cb-b758-d8a8cdb37557

create Set a page-load time budget → from_talk → Better WebPerformance with Rails

context (empty) → Closing recommendation of the talk.

relation (empty) → from_talk

source_node_id (empty) → 7dea7d8c-9087-489c-b88b-13129ffd1076

target_node_id (empty) → 8a072c53-4edf-401f-8a73-78d7e3b1e763

create Prefer DB-derived columns over recomputed values → from_talk → Better WebPerformance with Rails

context (empty) → Demonstrated by storing number_of_stars as a column via callbacks.

relation (empty) → from_talk

source_node_id (empty) → 2903fcea-b8e3-4711-a5fc-b64c75952c0e

target_node_id (empty) → 8a072c53-4edf-401f-8a73-78d7e3b1e763

create Keep cache keys simple → from_talk → Better WebPerformance with Rails

context (empty) → Warning given during fragment caching section.

relation (empty) → from_talk

source_node_id (empty) → eed68747-6e2e-43c7-adab-bd79b05dfb69

target_node_id (empty) → 8a072c53-4edf-401f-8a73-78d7e3b1e763

create Use touch: true for fragment cache invalidation → from_talk → Better WebPerformance with Rails

context (empty) → Shown on the reviews belongs_to product relationship.

relation (empty) → from_talk

source_node_id (empty) → 8023c41a-463f-40a2-938f-1054dee5986b

target_node_id (empty) → 8a072c53-4edf-401f-8a73-78d7e3b1e763

create Switch on HTTP/2 → from_talk → Better WebPerformance with Rails

context (empty) → Recommended with a one-line nginx config change.

relation (empty) → from_talk

source_node_id (empty) → 523c1f19-bf07-4915-beaf-6dd73c5e4152

target_node_id (empty) → 8a072c53-4edf-401f-8a73-78d7e3b1e763

create Use touch: true for fragment cache invalidation → about → Fragment Caching

context (empty) → Directly about fragment cache key invalidation.

relation (empty) → about

source_node_id (empty) → 8023c41a-463f-40a2-938f-1054dee5986b

target_node_id (empty) → e5570dc6-83ab-4f05-bf5d-1a5b8e93d9e6

create Switch on HTTP/2 → about → HTTP/2

context (empty) → Recommendation about enabling HTTP/2.

relation (empty) → about

source_node_id (empty) → 523c1f19-bf07-4915-beaf-6dd73c5e4152

target_node_id (empty) → 09bad78e-f8a8-4348-a1ef-1dce44d689a5

create Prefer Brotli over gzip when available → about → Brotli

context (empty) → Recommendation about Brotli compression.

relation (empty) → about

source_node_id (empty) → 2d5c33bf-c160-4c36-91b1-e32ede103182

target_node_id (empty) → a02f5458-efb6-4935-9754-ad96a3c66aa4

create Serve preheated static pages via nginx → about → Static Page Caching via nginx

context (empty) → Concrete takeaway for nginx static cache pattern.

relation (empty) → about

source_node_id (empty) → bbeac90f-d63e-4606-93df-b3ac4415180c

target_node_id (empty) → 33cd1002-0945-428e-8ee7-464137a06ed2

create Upgrade Ruby version for free speed → about → Ruby

context (empty) → About Ruby version upgrades.

relation (empty) → about

source_node_id (empty) → 9c5b4ee4-f87f-4c95-8817-76589b0491d8

target_node_id (empty) → c7f25b33-06c9-460e-aca7-fe993123ebee

create CDN is not always the answer → about → HTTP/2

context (empty) → HTTP/2's single-connection preference informs the CDN trade-off.

relation (empty) → about

source_node_id (empty) → e92473d7-2a3c-4392-bbd1-4eaf6be660e3

target_node_id (empty) → 09bad78e-f8a8-4348-a1ef-1dce44d689a5

create Is rendering from cached pages with server-side includes possible in Rails? → asked_at → Better WebPerformance with Rails

context (empty) → Audience Q&A question.

relation (empty) → asked_at

source_node_id (empty) → 8bf691a8-c6c1-44e5-be01-66014385f2ce

target_node_id (empty) → 8a072c53-4edf-401f-8a73-78d7e3b1e763

create Does caching still help for complex apps with many models? → asked_at → Better WebPerformance with Rails

context (empty) → Audience Q&A question.

relation (empty) → asked_at

source_node_id (empty) → e90ebcc0-973d-407e-88da-f13e3338a21f

target_node_id (empty) → 8a072c53-4edf-401f-8a73-78d7e3b1e763

create Aren't query optimizations a better first step than caching? → asked_at → Better WebPerformance with Rails

context (empty) → Audience Q&A remark.

relation (empty) → asked_at

source_node_id (empty) → acf2a1ca-aa9d-4b14-bf0c-5473fd0599ce

target_node_id (empty) → 8a072c53-4edf-401f-8a73-78d7e3b1e763

create Should touch on belongs_to be avoided in complex apps? → asked_at → Better WebPerformance with Rails

context (empty) → Audience Q&A challenge about ActiveRecord callbacks.

relation (empty) → asked_at

source_node_id (empty) → 774b5519-af96-4ae3-9306-f31778d58255

target_node_id (empty) → 8a072c53-4edf-401f-8a73-78d7e3b1e763

create Is rendering from cached pages with server-side includes possible in Rails? → about → Fragment Caching

context (empty) → Answer framed around fragment-caching idea.

relation (empty) → about

source_node_id (empty) → 8bf691a8-c6c1-44e5-be01-66014385f2ce

target_node_id (empty) → e5570dc6-83ab-4f05-bf5d-1a5b8e93d9e6

create Does caching still help for complex apps with many models? → about → Fragment Caching

context (empty) → Discusses scaling of caching strategies.

relation (empty) → about

source_node_id (empty) → e90ebcc0-973d-407e-88da-f13e3338a21f

target_node_id (empty) → e5570dc6-83ab-4f05-bf5d-1a5b8e93d9e6

create Aren't query optimizations a better first step than caching? → about → Fragment Caching

context (empty) → Contrasts query optimization with view-layer caching.

relation (empty) → about

source_node_id (empty) → acf2a1ca-aa9d-4b14-bf0c-5473fd0599ce

target_node_id (empty) → e5570dc6-83ab-4f05-bf5d-1a5b8e93d9e6

create Should touch on belongs_to be avoided in complex apps? → about → Use touch: true for fragment cache invalidation

context (empty) → Directly challenges the touch recommendation.

relation (empty) → about

source_node_id (empty) → 774b5519-af96-4ae3-9306-f31778d58255

target_node_id (empty) → 8023c41a-463f-40a2-938f-1054dee5986b

create Phoenix → uses → Elixir

context (empty) → Phoenix is built on Elixir.

relation (empty) → uses

source_node_id (empty) → 14a5108f-b80c-44ea-b8a1-fb8fbf5812e4

target_node_id (empty) → ea3e988a-8cb9-4418-a809-6f894b77c081

create Ruby on Rails → uses → Ruby

context (empty) → Rails is written in Ruby.

relation (empty) → uses

source_node_id (empty) → 7aac705a-0987-49f2-b665-9d4e08a6acee

target_node_id (empty) → c7f25b33-06c9-460e-aca7-fe993123ebee

create Rails 5.2 → uses → Active Storage

context (empty) → Rails 5.2 ships Active Storage.

relation (empty) → uses

source_node_id (empty) → af2a39f2-b541-4e8a-a4da-ea9ede14edbb

target_node_id (empty) → 2834fe94-5598-4e2b-ae0f-322d38f50180

create Rails 5.2 → related_to → Ruby on Rails

context (empty) → Rails 5.2 is a version of Ruby on Rails.

relation (empty) → related_to

source_node_id (empty) → af2a39f2-b541-4e8a-a4da-ea9ede14edbb

target_node_id (empty) → 7aac705a-0987-49f2-b665-9d4e08a6acee

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