Tag: mysql

Departure.rb

by Kirk Haines, posted in Database, DevOps, mysql, Ruby, Ruby on Rails

Databases are usually the lifeblood of applications and of dynamic web sites.They manage the information that applications depend on, and a large portion ofapplication development revolves around the care and feeding of the data thatgoes into a database or comes out of the database, as well as the structure ofthe database. When building applications with … Continue reading Departure.rb

Case Study: Improving Performance of MySQL, Thinking Sphinx in a Rails app

by Gautam Rege, posted in Case Studies, Ruby on Rails, Search

Recently, we faced a huge performance problem with one of our installed apps. The application is a Call Center ERP solution. The Call model is updated very frequently as there are about approximately 8,000 - 10,000 calls being made everyday. For every action there is an audit trail, so updates and inserts into database are … Continue reading Case Study: Improving Performance of MySQL, Thinking Sphinx in a Rails app