Performance

LLM responses stream for 30 seconds while a Rails thread waits. The arithmetic of Puma threads vs open SSE streams, and when Falcon's fibers earn the switch.

Ruby 4.0 ships two JIT compilers. What YJIT delivers on Rails apps in 2026, the two flags worth tuning, and when the experimental ZJIT is worth a try.

Production patterns for Solid Queue: custom retry strategies, concurrency tuning, worker pool sizing, dead letter queues, and monitoring. Working Rails 8 config examples.

Falcon production tuning: real benchmarks vs Puma, worker-count formulas, memory profiling, GC tuning, connection-pool sizing, and working config examples.

Rails 8 defaults to Solid Cache, Solid Queue, and Solid Cable. Most apps don't need Redis anymore. Some still do. Here's how we decide which workloads stay.

Concrete benchmarks and patterns for Rails performance in 2026 - YJIT speedups, Rails 8 query optimization, Redis caching, and N+1 elimination.

Complete guide to Rails 8 Solid Cache performance optimization and Redis migration. Database-backed caching advantages, benchmarks, cost savings, and step-by-step migration strategy.

How to migrate from Sprockets to Propshaft in Rails 8. Performance benchmarks, step-by-step migration, and production deployment strategies from teams who have done it.

Datadog APM for Laravel: instrumentation steps, monthly cost at scale, and how it compares with New Relic, Scout, and Blackfire on real benchmarks.

Master Hotwire Turbo 8 performance optimization for real-time Rails applications. Complete guide with advanced patterns, benchmarks, and production deployment strategies.