Tag Archives: Databases

You’re Never as Smart as You Think You Are

I’ve spent the past week plugging performance holes in a project at work. I wrote a Rails based service that allows us to manage our large amount of messaging to users. It provides stuff like bounce handling and serves as a central drop off point for other applications to push a message in the queue [...]

Silver Bullets

Every now and then, silver bullets work. For as long as I have been at Jobster, we have had issues with high CPU loads on our Oracle 10g server. We’ve been slowly working on it, finding inefficient queries and pages and fixing them. But on Monday, we really were on the edge. Our CPU usage [...]

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