Archive for the 'optimization' Category

How We Got DynDNS.com To Load Faster And How You Can Learn From It | Dyn Inc.

Tuesday, March 8th, 2011

the subj. how to optimize webpage load speed by compressing, optimizing images, js, css

Checkpoints and the Background Writer: PostgreSQL 8.3 Improvements and Migration

Wednesday, February 10th, 2010

improvements to PostgreSQL that could be made by tuning wal/background writer processes

TCP Tuning Guide [Office of Science, DOE, US GOV]

Friday, May 15th, 2009

Excellent site provides both theoretical background and practical recommendation for the situation when you need to push limits of TCP links using regular OS and commodity hardware. Especially useful if you need to do it via long-haul fast TCP link,…

Linux Software Router : Data Plane Optimization and Performance …

Saturday, April 25th, 2009

in-depth linux routing performance evaluation, including code profiling, execution path analysis, etc

Common Optimization Mistakes / presentation from phpCon Quebec 2009 /

Friday, March 6th, 2009

about optimization, speed, scaling web apps. Useful not only to php programmers, but to web app developers in general

Performance Tuning PostgreSQL

Thursday, June 12th, 2008

yet another postgresql tuning guide, contains useful explanation of most omportant config parameters

PostgreSQL Hardware Performance Tuning

Thursday, June 12th, 2008

notes on PostgreSQL tuning from Bruce Momjian (PostgreSQL core team )

Networking scalability on high-performance servers

Saturday, May 24th, 2008

SMP and network performace in linux (tcp only, no forwarding)

I can make your site run 10 times faster – Programming – SoftwareProjects

Sunday, March 2nd, 2008

nice summary for the above

Apache Performance Tuning – DeveloperSide.NET Articles

Saturday, August 11th, 2007

“Premature optimization is the root of all evil.” — Donald Knuth.