We implemented a new feature to TypedData objects in Ruby, called embedded TypedData objects. TypedData objects are used across a wide variety of Ruby types, such as Time, Enumerator, and Method. This feature improves allocation speed and runtime performance, while decreasing memory usage. In this blog post, we’ll look at what TypedData objects are under the hood, how embedded TypedData objects work, and the performance impacts of embedded TypedData objects.| Rails at Scale
At Shopify, we are constantly improving the performance of Ruby for everyone. Based on analysis of and experiments on one of our largest and highest traffic apps, we found two improvements in Ruby’s garbage collector that significantly improved our garbage collector performance, which in turn reduced our response times by 8%.| Rails at Scale
At the beginning of this year, we ran several experiments aimed at reducing the latency impact of the Ruby garbage collector (GC) in Shopify's monolith. In this article, Jean talks about the changes we made to improve GC performance, and more importantly, how we got to these changes.| Shopify
