Ruby Outperforms C: Breaking the Catch 22 by Aaron Patterson (railsatscale.com)
Ruby Outperforms C [extensions]: Breaking the Catch-22 (railsatscale.com)
Rewriting the Ruby parser (railsatscale.com)
Shopify wrote a new hand-written recursive descent parser. This looks like it will be a great improvement to the Ruby ecosystem!
Rewriting the Ruby parser (railsatscale.com)
At Shopify, we have spent the last year writing a new Ruby parser, which we’ve called YARP (Yet Another Ruby Parser). As of the date of this post, YARP can parse a semantically equivalent syntax tree to Ruby 3.3 on every Ruby file in Shopify’s main codebase, GitHub’s main codebase, CRuby, and the 100 most popular gems...
Automatically Find Memory Leaks in Native Gems (railsatscale.com)
It’s not uncommon for Rails developers to encounter memory leaks, which causes the system to run out of memory and kill the app. Often, this is caused by native gems that forgot to clean up memory. Let’s fix this problem using ruby_memcheck, a gem that automatically finds memory leaks in native gems.
Autotuner: How to Speed Up Your Rails App (railsatscale.com)
Ruby’s garbage collector is designed to be adaptable, scaling from short Ruby scripts to running apps that serve millions of requests per second. While it’s designed to be adaptable, it may not work optimally for every use case. For this reason, Ruby’s garbage collector supports many parameters that can be used to tune it....
