Here is an idea to try on a slow weekend: Nginx and Memcached, a 400% boost! Memcached, the darling of every web-developer, is capable of turning almost any application into a speed-demon. Benchmarking one of my own Rails applications resulted in ~850 req/s on commodity, non-optimized hardware - more than enough in the case … Continue reading Nginx and Memcached, a 400% boost!