On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 2:56 PM, Rich Jones <r...@gun.io> wrote: > Hey folks! > > This gig just popped up on our system, thought it could be some easy money > for anybody out there who knows Ruby/Rails and how to optimize queries! > > http://gun.io/contracts/67/improve-site-speed-for-startup
Normally I wouldn't even respond to something like this -- so sorry in advance -- I just couldn't resist; seeing that $500.00 is a joke for what they are asking. I mean sure, implement some page/frag/action caching and get the site to be "faster" but really I would guess that a lot of the reason their site is so slow is due to implicit coupling as as a result of bad design. I can't tell you how many time's I've seen Rails sites with the absolute worse performance due to the fact that for every object loaded N number of additional objects are loaded (N+1, N+N) otherwise know as, "bad inheritance" in the rails world. Everybody wants to build a site quickly, the ubiquitous "just get it out the door.. we'll fix it later" but later rarely comes when it should. It usually comes when the pain threshold is unbearable or some developer decided it was okay to store everything in the session and the dreaded "marshal data too short" error keeps popping up and exploding, Maybe, it's the reporting queries that happen to have no index (doubt it) or possibly the fact that Object has_and_belongs_to :every_single_child_object_childs_childs_child ? For $500.00 I would take a look at the site and decide how much it would cost to fix. For $5000.00 I might wanna fix it. Who know's maybe they'll get lucky and someone will actually take the job and slap on a band aid. I'd be really shocked, if anybody with that level of "true" talent would even respond. Good Luck ! > > Thanks! > > -- > Rich Jones > Director, Gun.io -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql
