Optimisations to the Balloons! servers
2009 November 13
It didn’t get bad enough to cause a noticeable slowdown to users but as usage of Balloons! has ramped up this week the servers were gradually slowing down:
Balloons! server response times over the last 7 days
The advantage of being at the end of a cellular data connection is that even with response times occasionally going over 1000ms! it never got bad enough to notice while using the application.
Anyway, I deployed some optimisations to the server today and am very happy with the results.
Balloons! server response times over the last 6 hours
That should keep us going for a while!
It’s great to see people caring about their platform’s performance. We’ve recently just done some big performance boosing work on one of our systems – the satisfaction is great.
I did a similar thing on one of my sites recently, it’s very satisfying!
Curious to know what you did you do to optimise the server Dave?
I didn’t, I optimised my code! :)