RR 379: "Caching in Rails" with Jeff Kreeftmeijer

Panel: - Charles Max Wood- Dave Kimura- Eric Berry Special Guests: https://jeffkreeftmeijer.com In this episode of Ruby Rogues, the panel talks to https://jeffkreeftmeijer.com who is a Ruby and Elixir developer at https://appsignal.com. Jeff writes for the https://appsignal.com newsletter and has a blog. Check out today’s episode where the panel talks about AppSignal, Russian doll caching, Drifting Ruby, JavaScript Sprinkles, cache warming, N+1 plus other topics.Show Topics:2:47 – Code Fund & https://newrelic.com/?gclid=EAIaIQobChMIpbDg_MSz3QIVAhtpCh2qpgebEAAYASAAEgJnivD_BwE&utm_campaign=googlebrand+JM+ABM+Q1FY19+acq+NORAM&utm_medium=PS&utm_source=Google 3:40 – https://appsignal.com might be the only support for https://elixir-lang.org.4:12 – The integration, the ease was so simple and your (Jeff) documentation made it very easy.4:46 – Comparatively to New Relic, https://appsignal.com is cheaper, isn’t it?4:59 – We don’t charge for host, we charge per request. That’s where to difference in price comes from. You get a number of requests in your plan. https://appsignal.com – you pay for what you use.5:50 – Chuck has used New Relic in the past, but only pay for the month that he needs.6:07 – Panelist talks with Josh Adams and relays the conversation to the panel and the guest.6:48 – Eric to Dave: Do you run into this with https://www.driftingruby.com? Where people just pay for what they need and cancel afterwards.7:41 – Dave: Yes, I do come across this. There isn’t much you can do about it. People will do what they need to do.8:24 – Jeff: We don’t have a lot of this problem with https://appsignal.com. By the way, I have never done that before – you are all horrible! ☺9:02 – Chuck: Let’s dive into is what is your approach to performance on Rails?9:24 – We started the vlog series to help them with that. Sometimes you run into limits of what Ruby can do, and stuff like caching can help. It’s never really a single issue. That’s one of our challenges as a company to hook into everything (integration). We do support, per communication, to help with tech issues, but usually it’s set-up related. Everybody’s problems are different because everyone’s set-up is different.11:02 – Chuck: Most of these posts are about caching and other topics. I’m going to go to something that I misunderstood for a while and that is https://blog.appsignal.com/2018/04/03/russian-doll-caching-in-rails.html I didn’t quite make the connection in my head.11:40 – First, let’s talk about fragment caching.13:49 – Jeff explains https://blog.appsignal.com/2018/04/03/russian-doll-caching-in-rails.html 18:44 – Chuck makes comments and asks Jeff a question.19:43 – Jeff confirms the panelist’s answer.22:00 – Jeff: Another solution is https://github.com/avand/sprinkles 22:27 – Digital Ocean’s Advertisement.23:12 – Question from Chuck to Jeff.23:38 – Chuck talks about what he will discuss at the Summit conference in October.23:55 – Panelist...