Caio Almeida

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Brazilian software engineer based in Brazil, working with Rails since 2018. Joined Meedan in 2016 as a software engineer and led the migration of Meedan's main product (Check) from PHP to Rails. Speaker at wroclove.rb 2024 (originally scheduled for the cancelled 2020 edition).

country

Brazil

rails_since

2018

person Caio Almeida

attended

wroclove.rb 2024 event

Speaker at the conference.

person Caio Almeida

authored

Optimizing performance in Rails apps with GraphQL layer talk

Delivered the talk at wroclove.rb 2024.

person Caio Almeida

authored

Performance Panel wroclove.rb 2024 talk

Panelist — represented Meedan's Rails + GraphQL experience, including the Brazil elections war story.

role: panelist

person Caio Almeida

has_skill

graphql-ruby tool

Uses graphql-ruby extensively in production at Meedan.

level: expert

person Caio Almeida

has_skill

GraphQL tool

Eight years operating a Rails+GraphQL product.

level: expert

person Caio Almeida

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graphql-batch tool

First tool Meedan introduced to fix N+1 on belongs_to.

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graphql-preload tool

Recommended for preloading has_many associations.

person Caio Almeida

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Honeycomb tool

Meedan uses Honeycomb for tracing.

person Caio Almeida

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Apollo GraphQL tool

Highlighted for per-field metrics and schema documentation.

person Caio Almeida

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GraphQL performance regression tests concept

Advocates assert_queries-based tests to catch N+1 before production.

person Caio Almeida

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AWS CloudWatch tool

Meedan uses CloudWatch for alerting and uptime monitoring across regions.

person Caio Almeida

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pganalyze tool

Meedan uses pganalyze for Postgres performance insights.

person Caio Almeida

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Apollo GraphQL Platform tool

Used for GraphQL-specific performance data at Meedan.

person Caio Almeida

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Grafana tool

Mentioned Grafana as one of their stack pieces.

person Caio Almeida

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Sentry tool

Meedan uses Sentry heavily across front-end and back-end for error catching and performance debugging.

person Caio Almeida

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Sidekiq tool

Noted Sidekiq's built-in insights interface is a good free starting point.

person Caio Almeida

works_at

Meedan company

Speaks from Meedan's Rails + GraphQL experience throughout the panel.

role: software engineer since: 2016

person Caio Almeida

works_on

Check project

Led migration of Meedan's main product Check from PHP to Rails.

role: lead engineer of PHP→Rails rewrite

Provenance

Created: 2026-04-17 16:16 seed
Last updated in: Optimizing Rails apps with a GraphQL layer (Caio Almeida,... 2026-04-17 23:20
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