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…14 min read·Feb 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.6 min read·Jan 24, 2021--3--3
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%…3 min read·Aug 21, 2020--1--1
Christian GregginCarwow Product, Design & Engineering🔙Backfilling 50 million records quicklyMaking large data migrations quickly and without downtime5 min read·Jun 11, 2020----
Christian GregginCarwow Product, Design & Engineering🌒 Shadow requesting for great goodBuild confidence in how your web applications perform under additional load, safely4 min read·Dec 13, 2019----
Christian GregginCarwow Product, Design & Engineering🚀 Speeding up our Heroku deploys by ~35%Speeding up our CI/CD pipeline by precompiling Heroku slugs5 min read·Aug 15, 2019----