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Caching Strategies for Ultra-High Performance in Ruby on Rails, Part 1
Learn how to boost Ruby on Rails app performance and reduce server load with cache strategies like page, action, and Russian Doll caching, cache stores, and more.
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The Relationship Between Observability vs. Monitoring
To put it simply, monitoring is for notifying you when something goes wrong in your application, and observability is to help you understand why that is. Read along, as we dive deeper to get a better understanding of the two and help you identify the right one for your use case!
How to Optimize Docker Performance
Docker containers have revolutionized the cloud industry. This guide will cover different methods of optimizing Docker performance and answer some frequently asked questions about the technology.
Understanding N+1 Database Queries
Identifying, mitigating, and solving scaleable N+1 database queries in Ruby on Rails.
Scout Monitoring Changelog – Holiday 2024
Scout now offers log integration with traces for Heroku Add-On users, supporting Rails and Python, with improved efficiency and optional monthly storage caps to control costs.
Stop Guessing, Start Knowing: The Power of Integrated Logging and APM
Scout’s new integrated logging and APM streamline debugging by linking logs and performance traces, reducing context-switching and accelerating issue resolution.
Current DevOps Problems & How Scout APM Solves Them
Do you find it difficult to keep up with how DevOps is developing? DevOps issues are addressed along with how APM can assist in this blog.
Complement Your Monitoring: Making Logs Readable for Humans & Machines
While Scout provides powerful monitoring tools (try it now. ) mastering logging is an awesome complement to these skills.
Ruby memory mastery: a Scout roadmap to monitoring like a pro | part 3
What is good memory management in Ruby.
Ruby memory mastery: a Scout roadmap to monitoring like a pro | part 2
Preventing and solving memory issues is at the heart of good memory management in Ruby – and of course, atScout Monitoring, we also know that solid monitoring can be the X facto...
Scout Monitoring Changelog – September 2024
We had a couple of nice releases in September and we are still cranking away on some nice treats this month as well.
Ruby memory mastery: a Scout roadmap to monitoring like a pro | part 1
What is good memory management in Ruby? Besides the language’s baked-in features (like its advanced garbage collection and heap paging mechanism) this also means sensible coding, leveraging mature memory profiling tools – and, of course, using the best monitoring tools and practices.