id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt bibwild-wordpress-com-8791 Comparing performance of a Rails app on different Heroku formations – Bibliographic Wilderness .html text/html 7537 631 79 This throughput under load can be effected not only by changing base speed, but also by various forms of horizontal scaling — how many puma or passenger processes you have with how many threads each, and how many CPUs they have access to, as well as number of heroku dynos or other hosts behind a load balancer. I decided to leave threads set to 1, and vary connections for load — so -c1 -t1 is a "one URL at a time" setting we can use to test "base speed", and we can benchmark throughput under load by increasing connections. Measuring base speed (just one concurrent request at a time), we found that performance dynos seem to have about the CPU speed of a bursting t2.medium (just a hair slower). But in fact, heroku standard dynos are much slower and more variable in performance than a bursting t2.medium. ./cache/bibwild-wordpress-com-8791.html ./txt/bibwild-wordpress-com-8791.txt