Shane Hathaway on March 27th, 2009

While fixing the dishwasher last year by flushing out bits of garbage, I realized the dishwasher had a built-in lawn sprinkler.

The duct tape worked remarkably well.

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Shane Hathaway on March 25th, 2009

I have been planning to compare mod_wsgi with paste.httpserver, which Zope 3 uses by default.  I guessed the improvement would be small since parsing HTTP isn’t exactly computationally intensive.  Today I finally had a good chance to perform the test on a new linode virtual host.
The difference blew me away.  I couldn’t believe it at [...]

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Shane Hathaway on March 19th, 2009

Last time I ran the RelStorage performance tests, the write speed to a MySQL database appeared to be slow and getting slower.  I suspected, however, that all I needed to do was tune the database.  Today I changed some InnoDB configuration parameters from the defaults.  The simple changes solved the MySQL performance problem completely.
The new [...]

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Shane Hathaway on March 6th, 2009

I am more than happy to support RelStorage as best I can by email.  Every time I do, however, I always get a nagging feeling that I could help RelStorage users a lot better if we set up a short term support contract.  I would very much appreciate a chance to optimize their system by [...]

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