Sessions tagged with 'performance'

Database Server Health Check

Josh Berkus (PostgreSQL Experts, Inc.)

Have you given your database server a checkup lately? If not, you probably should. "Sick" database servers are easy to prevent if you take a few simple steps <i>before</i> your server comes down with something.

Flashcache

Mohan Srinivasan (Facebook), Mark Callaghan (Facebook)

Presentation: Flashcache Presentation [PDF]

Flashcache enables the use of a flash device to cache disk data and accelerate IO bound applications. It was implemented and shared by Facebook.

Micro Optimize This!

Brandon Savage (Mozilla)

Replacing double quotes with single quotes makes your PHP applications faster, right? This talk covers that and more, with advanced optimization techniques and beginner pitfalls.

MySQL Bottleneck Hunters – How Schooner Increased MySQL Performance by 8x

Jeremy Cole (Twitter)

Presentation: MySQL Bottleneck Hunters – How Schooner Increased MySQL Performance by 8x Presentation [PDF]

MySQL users have an insatiable need for speed, capacity, and availability, all at a reasonable cost. This session will provide technical overview of the approach that Schooner engineering took to optimize MySQL Enterprise and InnoDB with flash memory, multi-core processors, and DRAM to achieve an 8x improvement in performance relative to existing systems.

Observing and Optimizing your Application with DTrace

Angelo Rajadurai (Sun)

Presentations: Observing and Optimizing your Application with DTrace Presentation [PDF],
external link

As application complexity increases, observing it in action becomes harder. Traditional tools are not very useful when going across programing languages. DTrace is a revolutionary tool that allows you to observe applications in AMP stack and those written in languages like PHP, Ruby, Python, Java, C, C++ and much more. This session will teach you DTrace and demonstrate techniques of using it.

Top 10 Perl Performance Tips

Perrin Harkins (We Also Walk Dogs)

Presentation: external link

So you want your code to run faster. This talk is for you. We're going to discuss some of the low-hanging fruit of optimization -- a few things that will make most Perl programs run significantly faster. We'll cover common bottlenecks, efficient usage of popular CPAN modules, and more.

Understanding and Optimizing your Code with Devel::NYTProf

Tim Bunce (TigerLead)

Presentation: Understanding and Optimizing your Code with Devel__NYTProf Presentation [PDF]

Devel::NYTProf is not only a state-of-the-art source code profiler for Perl, it's also a great tool for analyzing the control-flow in your code. Come and find out how to gain insight into what your code is really doing, and a structured approach to making it run faster.

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