Where Oh Where Did My Bottleneck Come From?
June 29th, 2009
At one point in my career I thought I knew what performance tuning was… I would have described it as “writing tight code.” (Remember that phrase? “Tight code”?) And if I were to be tasked with fixing performance issues, I would have jumped on my computer, gotten a local copy of the app going, and started hitting pages to find the slow ones, then look at the code for ways to fix the issue. That, however, was before I knew what performance engineering really is.