August 2007
Target Practice - A Workshop in Tuning MySQL Queries - Jay Pipes
by mbertier (via)I gave a tutorial at OSCON last week on tuning MySQL queries, the EXPLAIN statement, the optimizer, and benchmarking. I've gone ahead and put the tutorial materials online now:
MySQL Performance Blog » Landscape of Transactional Storage Engines for MySQL
by mbertier (via)talks about current state behavior and performance properties of Innodb, Falcon, PBXT and SolidDB Storage Engines
Performance tips for web applications « The Storyteller
by mbertier & 3 others (via)I was trying to improve performance for a web application recently keeping them in mind. Let me describe how to do some of them technically.
July 2007
Exceptional Performance
by mbertier & 3 othersYahoo!'s Exceptional Performance team evangelizes best practices for improving web performance. They conduct research, build tools, write articles and blogs, and speak at conferences. Their best practices center around the rules for high performance web sites.
Mark's IT Blog: MySQL 5 High Availability with DRBD 8 and Heartbeat 2
by mbertier (via)In this article, we're going to go through the entire process of installing, configuring and testing DRBD, Heartbeat and MySQL running in a 2 node cluster environment. This will be a bare bones configuration, best practices and security will take a back seat while we learn how all the different pieces work together.
June 2007
Mike Davidson: How To Keep Widgets From Slowing Down Sites: WEDJE
by mbertier (via)WEDJE is similar to the innerHTML method above except it creates what is effectively a cross-platform, cross-browser defer, enabling your script to load and execute asynchronously across all environments.
May 2007
minify - Google Code
by mbertier & 11 others (via)Minify attempts to fix this problem by combining multiple CSS or JavaScript files into one download. By default, it also removes comments and unnecessary whitespace to decrease the amount of data that must be sent to the browser. Most importantly, it does all of this on the fly and requires only a few simple changes to your existing web pages.
January 2007
Zend_Memory Proposal - Alexander Veremyev - Zend Framework Proposals - Zend Framework Wiki
by mbertier (via)Zend_Memory is a component that offers API for managing data in limited memory mode.
June 2006
March 2006
George's Talks
by mbertierI have given a number of presentations, both at conferences and internally at various jobs. Where possible I've made available both the presentations themselves as well as written notes available.
alphaWorks : Bytecode Instrumentation Profiling Toolkit for Java : Overview
by ddelangleA toolkit that helps developers and performance specialists exploit bytecode instrumentation for the purpose of profiling Java applications.
February 2006
TDAN Schumacher - Foundation of Excellent Performance
by mbertier (via)The Important Link between
Performance and Physical Database Design
Configuring Apache for Maximum Performance LG #123
by Xavier Lacot & 5 othersConfiguring Apache for Maximum Performance
ComputerZen.com - Scott Hanselman - XSLT Stylesheet Performance on Big Ass Documents
by ddelangle (via)Nutshell: .NET 2.0 was 10x faster than .NET 1.1. MSXML6 was 15% slower than MSXML4.
December 2005
Slashdot | AJAX Applications vs Server Load?
by ddelangle (via)Is this really a non-issue, or are people neglecting to discuss this for fear of popping the Web2.0 bubble?
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