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Save the date: Rails World 2024 will take place Sept 26 & 27 in Toronto. More details soon!

  1. World
  2. Agenda
  3. 5th October 2023
  4. Session: Donal McBreen

SolidCache - A Disk Backed Rails Cache

A disk cache can hold much more data than a memory one. But is it fast enough?

We built SolidCache, a database cache, to test this out. Running in production on hey.com, we now cache months’ rather than days’ of data.

The result: emails are 40% faster to display and it costs less to run.

  • 11:00 - 11:30
  • 5th October 2023
  • Track 2

Session Speaker


Donal McBreen

Senior Programmer in the SIP team, 37signals


Donal is a Senior Programmer in the Security, Infrastructure and Performance team at 37signals.


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