From Stubbies to Longnecks
summary
Claims specific fixes and tools: realestate.com.au uses Siege and JMeter for load, New Relic and Graphite for drilling down, Splunk/logstash for aggregation, S3 + CDN for assets, and Rails’ stale method with ETag and Last-Modified to avoid rendering. Examples include spinning up a browser 10,000 times for PDF rendering (PDFKit / webkit_html_pdf), an 800% CPU graph revealing an IO cliff on a DB, and estimating 260 million thumbnails if pre-generating every size — solutions are caching, on‑the‑fly resizing, vertical upgrades and pragmatic sharding.
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chapters (13)
- 0:00Intro
- 3:27PDF Kit
- 5:21Database Server
- 7:35Artificial Bottlenecks
- 9:26Performance Testing
- 12:59Generating Load
- 14:20JMeter
- 16:13Web Page Test
- 23:07Exploration Validation
- 25:01HTTP Conscious Rendering
- 26:38Images Thumbnails
- 28:54CDN
- 30:31S3 Rails
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