Rails Performance Monitoring 101: A Primer for Junior Developers

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Walkthrough of concrete debugging steps and tools for slow Rails apps: APM dashboards and rack‑mini‑profiler surface request queue 20–50 ms problems and top slow transactions, Benchmark.ips measures iterations, and examples show fixes that actually cut time — eager loading to eliminate N+1s, using find_each vs all to avoid memory bloat, preferring size/count correctly, and fixing indexes where composite index order matters. Covers background jobs, third‑party timeouts (aim for ~2s), LCP targets and measured gains.

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1. 0:00Start
2. 4:06Senior dev thing
3. 6:46Scalability
4. 7:06User Experience
5. 8:28Professional Growth
6. 27:32Benchmarking

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