Optimize Ruby garbage collection activity with Datadog's allocations profiler

The article "Optimizing Ruby performance: Observations from thousands of real-world services" reveals that slow database queries are overwhelmingly the biggest performance bottleneck in Ruby applications, accounting for over 80% of response time. It emphasizes that while Ruby itself is often not the primary issue, focusing on efficient database interactions – like optimizing queries and minimizing N+1 problems – yields the most significant performance gains. The authors advocate for proactive performance monitoring and a data-driven approach to optimization, rather than premature optimization of Ruby code itself.