Are your application users encountering delays in response, experiencing higher latency, or facing frequent timeouts? Does your application struggle to cope with growing demands regularly? Do you find your application lacking stability and reliability? If you answered with a “yes” to any of the above-mentioned questions, it indicates that your application requires an infrastructure upgrade.

At Mallow, we have a deep understanding of the challenges that can arise in application performance and stability. With over 12 years of experience, we have helped many clients with problems like slow response, high latency, and unstable applications.

By reading this article, you can identify the warning signs that suggest an infrastructure upgrade is necessary for your Ruby on Rails application. You will become familiar with typical problems like decreased responsiveness, heightened latency, and application instability, which might necessitate infrastructure improvements.

If you are interested in learning more about the common methods for verifying the effectiveness of your Ruby on Rails application, take a look at this article on how to validate the performance of your Ruby on Rails application. However, even after conducting these validations and implementing the necessary measures, if you still feel that your application’s performance has not improved, this article will guide other pertinent areas that require your attention.

Right-sizing of an application’s infrastructure encompasses a broader meaning as it involves a lot of moving pieces. It’s more than allocating the appropriate computing power, storage, and network resources.

Proper sizing means adjusting infrastructure resources to match changes in workload, user demand, seasonal increases, and future growth predictions. It involves adjusting infrastructure resources to match changes in workload, user demand, seasonal increases, and future growth predictions. It requires continuous monitoring and analysis to optimise the application’s infrastructure resources. This ensures that they meet the evolving needs of the business.

By adjusting the infrastructure, organisations can ensure their applications run well, avoid wasting resources, and optimise their infrastructure investment. This method improves the application’s performance, cost, scalability, and user experience, enhancing its effectiveness.

Choosing the right size for your instances and configurations helps your application work better, with faster response times and improved performance. By allocating adequate resources, you can avoid bottlenecks and ensure smooth operation during peak usage periods.

Choosing the right instance size and configuration allows your application to scale seamlessly. It enables your application to accommodate increasing user demands without sacrificing performance. Whether it’s handling a sudden surge in traffic or scaling to support a growing user base, properly sized instances and configurations provide the scalability needed to meet evolving requirements.

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