We are in process of replacing web servers which some of them have been with us since the beginning and adding a new ones.
- 7 new servers will be put into production by the end of next week.
- adding 28G of memory for memcache
- planning to switch master db with a slave db box since it’s newer and faster
- going to re-index entries and comments tables
- changing architecture of www.43places.com, www.allconsuming.net, www.43people.com and www.listsofbests.com setup to offload traffic from master database to farm of slave servers
- planning to speed up search by doing it locally on each box rather then doing it across NFS mounted drives
- I can not forget about the code optimization in progress
Hopefully this all will contribute to speed and stability of 43T.
Jun 25, 11:33PM PDT | 1 cheer | 0 comments
Man I love doing Webkinz but it loads too slow. Luckliy with this in my hands I’m sure to get this done
Mar 17, 2008, 11:15PM PDT | 0 comments
I just started please remind me
Mar 17, 2008, 09:10PM PDT | 0 comments
I’m doing a bunch of refactoring. Today I’m turning a lot of code that looks like this:
if thing.nil? || thing.empty?
into this:
if thing.blank?
Mar 04, 2008, 01:19PM PST | 2 cheers | 5 comments
Load Balancing
21 months ago
We’re not quite done with the new database load balancing setup, but one side effect of what we’re working on is that pages are about 25-50% faster for logged in users. You can check out Ivan’s diagram of the setup on the blog:
http://blog.robotcoop.com/2008/02/27/load-balancing-act/
Feb 29, 2008, 08:22AM PST | 1 cheer | 0 comments
For a 4 day class focusing on performance tuning. We’ve already found 2 things that we can try…
Jan 09, 2008, 02:57PM PST | 2 cheers | 0 comments
We’re taking a 3 day class about “MySQL High Availability”. The first day was mostly stuff we already know about replication, but we should start covering clustering which should be interesting.
Nov 13, 2007, 09:03AM PST | 2 cheers | 1 comment
It took a little bit, but with Ivan’s help, things seem pretty fast and stable now.
Sweetness!
Oct 30, 2007, 08:31PM PDT | 1 cheer | 0 comments
other than talking with Ivan, Laurel, Josh, Todd & Buster. The sites seems pretty zippy now so I’m marking this off my list.
Oct 30, 2007, 02:01PM PDT | 1 comment
In addition:
- we added an extra RAM to our master and slave DBs bringing it to 16G each
- added extra indexes to couple of tables
- added 8G of memory to memcache
- de-normalized some of our tables
- added more front end caching
The fight continues on.
Aug 06, 2007, 10:35AM PDT | 4 cheers | 0 comments
