David Brady — TourBus<\/p>\n
He can make your website 10x faster in a day’s work. Given two weeks, he can make it 100x faster.<\/p>\n
Do you believe in refactoring? If you don’t believe he can do what he says he
\ncan do, then you don’t believe in refactoring.<\/p>\n
How do you optimize?<\/p>\n
1. Measure
\n2. Find bottlenecks
\n3. Go up a level
\n4. Rearchitect, redesign to fix
\n5. Measure<\/p>\n
TourBus helps you find the performance problems in web servers. It makes use of:<\/p>\n
– WWW::Mechanize
\n– Threaded
\n– Unit Testing<\/p>\n
He showed us an example. It’s easy to use.<\/p>\n
I notice he uses Aquamacs (emacs for Mac), and sinatra<\/p>\n
TourBus trips over itslef at 500 requests per second, since its written in
\nRuby. They used the mySQL slow query analyzer, and it told them they needed
\nsome indexes on some tables. The db CPU use dropped from 100% to 1%. Then the
\napp server was 90%-100%.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
David Brady — TourBus He can make your website 10x faster in a day’s work. Given two weeks, he can make it 100x faster. Do you believe in refactoring? If you don’t believe he can do what he says he can do, then you don’t believe in refactoring. How do you optimize? 1. Measure 2. … <\/p>\n