SQL Views and HTTP Caching

Writing Less Ruby, The Ruby Way with Andrew DeFranco. Offloading computationally intensive tasks to the DB layer is one way to dramatically speed up Rails applications, but typically comes with sacrifices. This talk will demonstrate a technique using SQL views that offers a handy way to take advanced SQL capabilities and smoothly integrate them with existing Ruby code, expose them to ActiveRecord, and allow for a modular and expressive codebase.

A customized approach to HTTP proxy caching with Ruby with Perry Carbone. Discussing an HTTP proxy caching gem called AcornCache ( https://github.com/acorncache/acorn-cache ). HTTP caching can make public pages that don't change often lightning fast to load and can lighten the burden on your server. This talk will show you the basics of how to leverage cloud-based proxy caching and walk you through the process of building a custom rack middleware.