Sam Saffron

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Debugging hidden memory leaks in Ruby
Tests that sometimes fail
My i3 window manager setup
Why I stuck with Windows for 6 years while developing Discourse
Logster and our error logging strategy at Discourse
Finding where STDOUT/STDERR debug messages are coming from
Ruby's external malloc problem
An analysis of memory bloat in Active Record 5.2
Managing db schema changes without downtime
Reducing String duplication in Ruby
Instrumenting Rails with Prometheus
Debugging 100% CPU usage in production Ruby on Rails systems
Fastest way to profile a method in Ruby
The current state of Brotli compression
WebSockets, caution required!
Fixing Discourse performance regressions
Debugging memory leaks in Ruby
Announcing rubybench.org
Speeding up Rails 4.2
Ruby 2.1 Garbage Collection: ready for production
Vintage JavaScript begone
Call to Action: Long running Ruby benchmark
Commenting powered by Discourse
Demystifying the Ruby GC
Live restarts of a supervised unicorn process
Discourse in a Docker container
Discourse as my blogging platform
Eliminating my trivial inconveniences building Discourse
Flame graphs in Ruby MiniProfiler
Do you smoke test?
Mobile mapping is not a cartographic problem, it is a search problem
MiniProfiler Ruby Edition
Leaving Stack Exchange
Testing 3 million hyperlinks, lessons learned
Sam's ultimate web performance tool and resource list
Why upgrading your Linux Kernel will make your customers much happier
MiniProfiler 2.0, almost out of the gate
Stop paying your jQuery tax
That annoying INSERT problem, getting data into the DB
In managed code we trust, our recent battles with the .NET Garbage Collector
Optimizing ASP.NET MVC3 Routing
Spam, bacon, sausage and blog spam: a JavaScript approach
Extending the ASP.NET error page (show me the SQL edition)
Porting LINQ-2-SQL to Dapper for great justice
Oh view where are thou: finding views in ASP.NET MVC3
Automatically instrumenting an ASP.NET MVC3 app
Profiling your website like a true Ninja
A day in the life of a slow page at Stack Overflow
How I learned to stop worrying and write my own ORM
Interesting answers on Stack Overflow from July
Diagnosing runaway CPU in a .Net production application
Got Flare?
Behaviour driven design using rspec IronRuby and C#
Our new startup, Media Browser
Will program for food, the future of Media Browser
Upcoming features for Media Browser
Media Browser source code license changes
Refactoring media browser - entity resolution
Simpler debugging of Vista Media Center plugins
Slow response-time is usabilitie's alcoholism
My server just died, long live my new VPS
Deadlocked
SSH Jumphosts tunneling and other curiosities
Video Browser: Past, Present and Future
Speed up your feed generation in Rails
You should be very careful when using ActiveRecord eager loading
I fixed up Video Browsers sort by date
Genre and runtime sort options for Video Browser
A cleaner way to iterate through Enumerable lists in Prototype
Redo your migrations in Rails and keep your data
A few new features for Video Browser
Getting started with Ruby On Rails on Windows
Why the hell write yet another blog engine?
Hello World
A new version of Video Browser for Vista MCE
Goodbye Altiris
Video Browser for Vista MCE
IDisposable in Ruby
Insert or Update pattern for Sql Server
Excluding changes to AssemblyInfo.cs from Subversion
.Net memory profiler 3.0 just released
Keep it simple
Embedded .NET database shootout

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