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Scout Monitoring
Company blog · scoutapm.com/blogprogrammingweb
Scout Monitoring is the company blog at scoutapm.com, writing about programming and web. Since 2020, 10 different Hacker News readers have linked it 13 times, most often “Performance Impact of Using Ruby on Rails View Partials”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (4) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Scout's blog for explanations of technical topics such as Ruby performance, Ractors, Unix load averages, and N+1 queries with counter caches. One commenter calls its traffic analogy for load averages a good explanation.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 4 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
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Most-linked posts?
- Performance Impact of Using Ruby on Rails View Partials2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-11-04
What Hacker News says?
This article says otherwise: https://scoutapm.com/blog/performance-impact-of-using-ruby-o... Maybe it has changed but either way they still can be a bottle neck
Comment linking /blog/performance-impact-of-using-ruby-on-rails-view-partials
on “Faster Ruby: Thoughts from the outside”Submitted How to Use Lambdas in Ruby (2020) as a story · 60 points
HN discussionRuby seems to have got past its GIL problems with Ractor[1]. What's stopping Python from doing something similar? [1] https://scoutapm.com/blog/ruby-ractor
Comment linking /blog/ruby-ractor
on “The GIL and its effects on Python multithreading”Submitted Caching Strategies for Ultra-High Performance in Ruby on Rails, Part 1 as a story · 5 points
HN discussionThe traffic analogy is a good explanation. Here you go: https://scoutapm.com/blog/understanding-load-averages
Comment linking /blog/understanding-load-averages
on “Explaining top(1) on FreeBSD”Submitted Performance Impact of Using Ruby on Rails View Partials as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSomewhat deviating, but relavent. If we use counter cache that is to keep vote_count on comments table, the include(:comments) solution would work fine. https://scoutapm.com/blog/how-to-start-using-counter-caches-...
Comment linking /blog/how-to-start-using-counter-caches-in-rails
on “Understanding N + 1 queries problem”Submitted Unlocking the Power of Lambdas in Ruby as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Distributed Tracing in Ruby with OpenTracing as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Types in Ruby 3: New Features Explained (2021) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Understanding page faults and memory swap-in/outs as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Ruby Garbage Collection: More Than It Sounds as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to Use Lambdas in Ruby as a story · 1 points
HN discussion