Haven’t you always wanted to make some changes to your server and then absolutely slam it with traffic to see the result? Thats pretty much what I did last week while writing how to Super Charge your Rails App with Rack Cache, using the BlitzIO tool.

If you’re interested in trying out Blitz watch a demo in the screencast below.

For a walkthrough on how to add Rack::Cache and Memcache to your server read my performance article on the Heroku Dev Center.