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Rails Performance Optimization
Most slow Rails apps aren't slow everywhere — a handful of endpoints, queries and allocations do the damage. We profile production behavior, find the real bottlenecks and ship targeted fixes with measurable before/after numbers.
Trace
find the endpoints that actually hurt
Sound familiar?
- →Response times creep up as data grows
- →Request timeouts (H12s) on Heroku or 504s behind a load balancer
- →Background queues back up during peak hours
- →You've added servers but it didn't help
Our approach
- 01
Measure
APM traces, rack-mini-profiler, stackprof and production logs to rank bottlenecks by real user impact.
- 02
Fix
N+1 elimination, caching strategy, query rewrites, view rendering and serialization tuning.
- 03
Prove
Benchmarks and dashboards that show exactly what changed, plus guardrails so it stays fast.
Questions
How fast can you find the bottleneck?+
Usually within the first few days. AI-assisted log and trace analysis lets us sift through far more production data than manual review.
Do you need production access?+
Read access to your APM and logs is ideal. We can work from exported data if access is restricted.
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