Leverage Heroku’s Metrics for Better App Performance

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Today, we are going to talk about performance related items on Rails and Heroku. I'd like to introduce the Heroku metrics dashboard and how to make performance optimizations to our application based on that.

Heroku is a Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) offering for hosting web applications and is one of the easiest services for getting your application online quickly. Though it's built on top of AWS, it has many features wrapped around it that make it easy and appealing over other cloud-computing services. One such feature is it's metrics dashboard which provides insights on how an application is performing at the infrastructure level.

In this tutorial we'll see how to make use of this to optimize our Rails application.

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