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Code on the Road: CloudFront Performance Numbers
CloudFront, however, is amazingly well tuned. That 46ms time remained constant within 2ms every single time I loaded that file. In other words, CloudFront is so much faster and more consistent that there is simply no reason not to use it for all your S3 c
A cup of...: Hibernate Caches
Hibernate comes with three different caching mechanisms - first level, second level and query cache. Truly understanding how the Hibernate caches work and interact with each other is important when you need to increase performance - just enabling caching
Load Testing With Log Replay
Running one of these tests will provide you with a mountain of data, but how do you map the performance curve as request rate changes? Do you know at which point your server becomes saturated? To help with this task, I've created autoperf.rb, a small Ruby
Asynchronous Database Access in Ruby
Ruby alternative, keep an eye on Aman Gupta's recent project: em-mysql. An EventMachine wrapper around MySQLPlus, it is already showing very promising results:
Fighting MySQL Replication Lag
if you care about replication latency you must not have any long running updates. Queries or transactions containing multiple update queries which add up to long time.
Codehaus: Perf4J
perf4j is a performance monitoring framework for Java. It includes a simple API for performance statistics gathering, with optional Annotation support. And classes for performance reporting (i.e. max, min, avg, stddev, TPM, etc.) with report options such
Coding Horror: Deadlocks
Five philosophers sit around a circular table. In front of each philosopher is a large plate of rice. The philosophers alternate their time between eating and thinking. There is one chopstick between each philosopher, to their immediate right and left. In
visualvm: all-in-one java troubelshooting
VisualVM is a visual tool integrating several commandline JDK tools and lightweight profiling capabilities. Designed for both production and development time use, it further enhances the capability of monitoring and performance analysis for the Java SE pl
10 MySQL variables that you should monitor
MySQL's developers provided a fairly comprehensive list of performance variables that you can monitor in real time to check the health and performance of your MySQL server.
Even Faster Web Sites by Steve Souders | [OSCON 2008]
80-90% of the end-user response time is spent on the frontend. Start there. There's a greater potential of improvement on the frontend. If you improve the backend performance by 50%, chances are the end-user only sees a 5% improvement.
Performance Tuning Best Practices for MySQL - good coders code, great reuse
The most interesting performance tuning tips from the video:
New Relic - Rails profiling
New Relic, Inc. today announced that 37signals, the standard-setting Ruby on Rails company, and maker of web-based applications like Basecamp, Highrise, Campfire, and Backpack, has standardized on New Relic RPM to keep performance humming.
Rails Plugin: Throttler
The throttling plugin monitors the load of your server and allows you to disable certain features of your app when the load is too high.
Understanding YSlow: What Matters
YSlow by Yahoo! is a great little plugin for Firefox and Firebug. It looks at a page and uses Yahoo!’s Best Practices for Speeding Up Your Web Site to tell you how to make the page load faster.
Web Browsers: Speed Testing the Latest Web Browsers
Since our squadron of independent analysts had the week off, we ran the latest editions of Firefox, Internet Explorer, Opera 9.5, and Safari for Windows through some unscientific but highly geeky tests ourselves
15 Tools to Help You Develop Faster Web Pages - Six Revisions
WebLOAD is an open-source, professional grade stress/load testing suite for web applications. WebLOAD allows testers to perform scripts for load testing using JavaScript. It can gather live data for monitoring, recording, and analysis purposes.
MySQL Performance Tools
page contains links to various mysql tools we found helpful to use in practice.
TuneUp | Runs
We provide a Ruby on Rails plugin that sends runtime information to your TuneUp account while you develop, and you choose "runs" to discuss with the community.
Terracotta 2.6 Landing
Faster performance, more reliable, and an all new cluster vizualization tool means Terracotta 2.6 is easier to tune requiring less time to production which means you have more time to focus on business logic
Palmist - finding MySQL bottlenecks in Rails
# Make it easy to work on one request at a time
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