Warming up the Puma master before it forks

· Dev 37signals · Oct. 2, 2026, 11:33 a.m.
puma Rails rails-application Performance Optimization
Summary
This blog post discusses a technique used by Basecamp 5 to optimize their request handling by running signed-in requests through the Puma master before forking workers, effectively reducing post-deploy request queues.
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