RubyConf 2024 Plan to scale or plan to fail: an evidence-based approach for... by Jade Dickinson

Plan to scale or plan to fail: an evidence-based approach for improving systems performance by Jade Dickinson In this talk, I will present a methodology for replicating most standard Rails systems, for the purpose of load testing. You can use this to find out how your system performs with more traffic than you currently encounter. This will be useful if you are on a Rails team that is starting to see scaling challenges. At Theta Lake we operate at scale and are applying this methodology to proactively find ways to bring down our server costs. You don’t want to leave it until either your server costs soar out of control, or your entire system is about to fail. By seeing into the future just a little bit, you can find bottlenecks in your system and so find where you can improve its scalability.