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Performance optimisation through named_scope

I recently gave a presentation about using named_scopes to WellRailed and while it was still on my mind I thought that I’d cover named_scope in conjunction with some performance optimisation work I’ve been doing.
I used to use relationship extensions lots and it always irked me that I was putting business logic for a model, say [...]

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Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS)

Amazon’s persistent storage beta program for Elastic Cloud Computing (EC2) has been unleashed on the general public.  I’ve been hanging out to play with this for a while and will duplicate any tests I perform on Slicehost servers with comparable EC2 servers with EBS.  Since I’m also essentially comparing two different providers, I’ll look at [...]

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Trying Again.

The topic of what to blog about has popped up again.  I have this undying urge to publicly write about something, but what?  I’ve tried blogging a couple of times but I feel it’s been pretty aimless, hence not keeping up with it.  So I need a plan, something that keeps my interest and something [...]

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    I'm a High Performance Website Consultant specialising in Ruby on Rails deployments. In this blog I cover common problems I've seen and provide insight on optimisation techniques.

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