Lunch with Ben Nadel, and Yaron (from shoesforcrews.com) and a guy from an Insurance Company (don't remember his name)
We spoke at length about the problems we face with slowdowns, bottlenecks and so on. the universal response is "get Fusion Reactor" - you're not hunting blind.
The other refrain was "index your tables' which we know about, but it's probably worth running the query analyzer for a long time, during a quiet period on the site, and seeing what it comes up with. Running the QA during firefighting is not giving us enough insight.
Other things we discussed:
Adding a "block" feature to our cache code (Shea can expand on this) but basically having a double level of caching that only ever lets ONE person make new cache content.
Something else really cool that I don't remember... (it'll come to me)
Yeah, I talked with Ben for a while about work flow and customer expectations etc..
ReplyDeleteKind of cool to just share experiences, just to see how other people deal with similar issues