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.
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]