8. Biggest single win
(2010)
Removing joins.
Putting all ID-based lookups in
memcached.
3x’d our performance overnight,
prevented complicated architecture
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9. Watching syscalls with
DTrace
dtrace -n 'syscall::open:entry { printf("%s
%s",execname,copyinstr(arg0)); }'
Found PHP opening files because of
require_once(). Switched to require().
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26. Show Me What’s Wrong
Second coolest website ever.
http://showmewhatswrong.com/
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27. Poor man’s SMS alerts
Setup GMail filter for SMS
1. Add filter for name+sms@hotstartup.com
2. Forward to 4155551234@vtext.com (VZW)
3. Your app can now text you anytime, for free.
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28. Ambient Traffic
Awareness
Get the New Relic Menu Bar
Always know about how much traffic you have.
(Available in Mac App Store)
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29. Use Vogue!
Never refresh for CSS again!
Vogue
github.com/quizlet/vogue
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30. Thanks!
Follow:
@asuth
@quizlet
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