Christian Gregg📈 Scaling Ruby on Rails on Heroku with Connection PoolingHeroku recently made Connection Pooling for Heroku Postgres databases generally available. This is exciting! I decided to take a weekend…Feb 6, 2021Feb 6, 2021
Christian Gregg🗜Reducing Rails Memory Usage by ~15%We recently deployed a change to our Puma configuration that led to a ~15% reduction in memory usage across all of our Rails applications.Jan 24, 20213Jan 24, 20213
Christian GregginCarwow Product, Design & Engineering🗂 Speeding up our Rails apps with asynchronous cache writesAt carwow our applications can be chatty, making one or several requests to each other in order to fulfil a request. In fact, around ~48%…Aug 21, 20201Aug 21, 20201
Christian GregginCarwow Product, Design & Engineering🔙Backfilling 50 million records quicklyMaking large data migrations quickly and without downtimeJun 11, 2020Jun 11, 2020
Christian GregginCarwow Product, Design & Engineering🌒 Shadow requesting for great goodBuild confidence in how your web applications perform under additional load, safelyDec 13, 2019Dec 13, 2019
Christian GregginCarwow Product, Design & Engineering🚀 Speeding up our Heroku deploys by ~35%Speeding up our CI/CD pipeline by precompiling Heroku slugsAug 15, 2019Aug 15, 2019
