Caching is an effective way to speed up the performance of Rails applications. However, the costs of an in-memory cache database could become significant for larger-scale projects. In this blog post, I ll describe optimizing the Rails caching mechanism using the Brotli compression algorithm instead of the default Gzip. I ll also discuss a more advanced technique of using in-memory cache for extreme performance bottlenecks.
In part one of this series I covered the original strategy, and in part two the RFP and site, and in part three the design. In part four I will do a deep dive under the hood into our content management system (CMS) choices. This is the longest part, which reflects the importance of the…
Security experts are urging users of IBM's Aspera Faspex file-exchange application to take it offline immediately unless they've patched a flaw being actively