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All articles tagged 'Performance'

A row of isometric Puma worker blocks, one glowing lime with all its threads busy and requests queued beside it

Rails Performance Monitoring: What to Watch and Why It Slows Down

How to monitor a Rails application in production: reading Puma's stats endpoint, spotting GC pressure, and finding the query that's actually slow.

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Sejal Pandey

Sejal Pandey

A row of PHP-FPM worker slots with one overloaded and requests queuing behind it

PHP Performance Monitoring: What to Watch and Why It Slows Down

How to monitor a PHP application in production: reading the PHP-FPM status page, checking OPcache health, and finding the request that is actually slow.

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Sejal Pandey

Sejal Pandey

Database Partitioning: Types, Strategies, and When to Use Each

Database Partitioning: Types, Strategies, and When to Use Each

How database partitioning works in PostgreSQL and MySQL. Range, list, and hash partitioning with SQL examples and guidance on when to partition vs shard.

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Prathamesh Sonpatki

Prathamesh Sonpatki

Database Performance Tuning: A Practical Guide for Production Systems

Database Performance Tuning: A Practical Guide for Production Systems

Tune PostgreSQL and MySQL for production with connection pooling, memory configuration, write path optimization, vacuum management, and lock contention fixes.

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Preeti Dewani

Preeti Dewani

SQL Query Optimization: Techniques That Actually Improve Performance

SQL Query Optimization: Techniques That Actually Improve Performance

Find and fix slow SQL queries using execution plans, missing index detection, N+1 pattern fixes, and pagination strategies for PostgreSQL and MySQL.

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Sahil Khan

Sahil Khan

Database Indexing

Database Indexing: How It Works, Types, and When to Use It

How database indexes work, when to use B-tree vs hash indexes, clustered vs non-clustered indexes, and how to tell if your indexes are actually helping.

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Faiz Shaikh

Faiz Shaikh