Monday, September 19, 2016

Tracking Common Rails Performance Issues with Skylight

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Today I am going to introduce you Skylight - a smart and easy to use online tool for profiling Rails, Sinatra, and Grape applications. While discovering its main features, we will discuss common Rails performance issues along with ways to fix them.

Skylight is somewhat similar to the popular service called New Relic, but it was designed specifically for Rails apps with a goal to make interacting with the dashboard easier. Skylight's team believes that New Relic has too many features and not all of them are really useful. Therefore, the Skylight team are focusing on core components that provide immediate value. Skylight is free for up to 100k requests per month and you also receive a free 30-day trial to test its functionality. Not bad, eh?

The source code for the sample application can be found on GitHub.

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by Ilya Bodrov-Krukowski via SitePoint

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