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The Mythical IO-Bound Rails App
When the topic of Rails performance comes up, it is commonplace to hear that the database is the bottleneck, so Rails applications are IO-bound anyway, hence Ruby performance doesn’t matter that much, and all you need is a healthy dose of concurrency to make your service scale. But how true is this in general?
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Software EngineeringSystems & Performance2025
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| Submitted | Title on HN | Points | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 25, 2025 | The Mythical IO-Bound Rails App by thunderbong | 227 | 70 |
