Donal McBreen - Solid Cache: A disk backed Rails cache - Rails World 2023

A disk cache can hold much more data than a memory one. But is it fast enough?
At ‪@37signals‬ they built Solid Cache, a database backed ActiveSupport cache, to test this out. Running in production on hey.com, they now cache months' rather than days' of data.
The result: emails are 40% faster to display and it costs less to run.
Links:
rubyonrails.org/
github.com/rails/solid_cache
dev.37signals.com/solid-cache/
#RailsWorld #RubyonRails #SolidCache #database #ActiveSupport
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[@torvic99]

In summary: Solid cache is just a bit slower but drastically cheaper than Redis.

[@brenogazzola2667]

Excellent presentation. Problem explained, hypothesis tested, to current implementation 👍