Announcement

LA Ruby Conference 2012

This is the fourth year for the LA Ruby Conference. Thank you for joining us.

Registration for the conference is now open.

February 2nd-4th, 2012
Holiday Inn Media Center
Burbank, California


Buy a ticket for Thursday workshop


Ruby Fundamentals or Maintainable Rails or Ruby Koans


Buy a ticket for Friday Workshop

Rails Fundamentals or Vital Testing


Buy your Saturday Conference Ticket

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Sorry for earlier confusion around the ticket purchases, you can now buy tickets for each workshop and the conference at the one link above.

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Presentation

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Metrics-Driven Ruby/Rails Performance

"Ruby can't scale."

Tell that to LivingSocial, GroupOn, Gowalla, Sony, and the rest of our community pushing millions of requests per day. Scaling an application isn't about piling up hardware and dropping in the newest database fad, it's the combination of design and refinement.

In this session, we'll look at refining Ruby code using tools to:

  • Find CPU-intensive hotspots
  • Measure memory and object allocation
  • Monitor query count and duration
  • Isolate data-store bottlenecks

This is not about info-porn. It's about finding the 1% of your code that, through optimization, can dramatically improve performance.