Tag: performance

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

Pro tip: Increase webpage performance using sprite, data-uri and jammit

by jiren, posted in Ruby, Ruby on Rails

For quite some time at Josh Software, we have been concentrating on improving backend server performance. You can read about load testing and bench-marking and improving upload performance using nginx upload module. This post is about improving frontend performance by getting your pages to  load faster using techniques like sprites, data-uri and jammit. These tools … Continue reading Pro tip: Increase webpage performance using sprite, data-uri and jammit