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One of the most harmful things about people discussing the performance of web applications is the key metric that we use. Requests per second seems like the obvious metric to use, but it has several insidious characteristics that poison the discourse and lead developers down ever deep...
As I mentioned in the post on managing file uploads, the most common cause of an unresponsive rails application is having some long-running requests consuming all your rails processes. For managing uploads and downloads you can off-load the time-consuming work to apache modules like m...
