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Articles written by SINAPTIA about Performance.
Rails performance at scale: fixing slow queries with millions of rows
After saving millions of records in SolidTelemetry, a database-backed OpenTelemetry implementation for Rails apps, we could see how the performance of a page degraded to the point of unusability. Discover how we made the page 22x faster.
Patricio Mac Adden
May 26th, 2025
Debugging a memory-leaking action
This week we had to refactor a feature in one of the Ruby on Rails apps we’re maintaining. While at it, we discovered it was leaking memory, making the memory usage ramp up exponentially. With our expertise and the help of some tools, we were able to identify the root cause and fix the issue. Read on to learn more about how we approached this problem.
Patricio Mac Adden
Sep 26th, 2024