Speeding up a Python Program 114000 Times
Optimizations are one thing, but making a serious data collection program run 114,000 times faster is another thing entirely. Learn how it has been done.
Tag: performance
Ten Web Performance Tuning Tricks in 60 Minutes
Join Richard Campbell as he opens up his web performance tuning toolkit and walks you through ten different techniques for improving web performance, rating each by difficulty, risk and reward. You will learn about a variety of techniques for reducing payload size, latency, server and client compute times.
Cargo Cult Web Performance Optimization
Put your CSS at the top, JavaScript at the bottom, domain shard all the things, and so on! But why? Do these rules even make sense? The modern browser is not the black box it used to be. We can peek inside and see how it really works—we have the …
High Performance Ruby
For years, the JVM has been the runtime to beat when it comes to runtime optimization and garbage collector performance. While statically-typed languages built atop the JVM have been able to leverage those capabilities, dynamic languages have often had a more difficult time. But the times they are a’changing.
Scaling SQL Server at StackOverflow
Learn how StackOverflow.com can serve 12-14 million web pages per day with Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2. They’re passionate about performance, and we’ll share the scalability lessons they learned along the way. This session is aimed at production DBAs who manage SQL Servers that need to go faster and SQL …
The Art of Writing Small Programs
My first computer had 1KB of RAM, and when I finally got it upgraded to 4KB the possibilities seemed endless! At university, I coauthored what is probably the world’s smallest tetris program – one line of BBC BASIC, 256 bytes in all. These days I have a laptop which has …