This episode is part 6 in a Phoenix CMS series:
- Series Overview - Planning
- Part 1 - Setting up schemas, contexts and ecto relations
- Part 2 - Editing multiple tags at once as a list
- Part 3 - Listing mixed forms of content together for topics
- Part 4 - Setting up meta tags for SEO
- Part 5 - Making content-specific markdown extensions
- Part 6 - Using ETS to cache information and speed up the site <hr />
Last time we did some simple Phoenix performance tweaks to make the homepage performant enough to handle over a thousand requests per second.
But on pages that do significant numbers of database queries, we need something more.
An OTP in-memory data store (6:02)
The greatest thing about Elixir is all the Erlang and OTP tools we get automatically. Here's a look at how to use Erlang Term Storage to cache database requests and improve Phoenix's already impressive performance.
Final result
The Episodes page is now sped up to 275 requests a second on a $5/month server.
Note that this app is compiling Markdown inline and has some other CMS-like features. With just standard EEx templates, performance is around 1k requests per second. Instead of demoing something built specifically to win on a benchmark, the goal here was to show a real-world app with shortcuts taken for the sake of productivity and see how it could do on a bottom-tier VPS offering.
Update: There was a thread about this video on elixirforum.com, so I made another video as a response to community feedback.
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