August 6, 2020

Turning it up to 11 - Scaling Ruby on Rails to 100k rps.

We’ve all heard the “Rails can’t scale” myth, but how far can we scale Rails? This is a story about a one year project scaling a REST API for concert ticketing and e-commerce to huge presale events and the lessons learned on the way.

This talk was given at RUG::B in Berlin.

You can find a recording on YouTube:

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