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by Jeff Dean and Sanjay Ghemawat.

echo madvise | sudo tee /sys/kernel/mm/transparent_hugepage/enabled

read this if you are using postgresql on AWS EBS volumes (SSD)

Nuitka is a Python compiler written in Python. It's fully compatible with Python 2.6, 2.7, 3.4-3.14. You feed it your Python app, it does a lot of clever things, and spits out an executable or extension module.

I'd rather work with a language that lets me say things as I want to
say them, and work to speed up the things that seem too slow where
that turns out to matter, than begin by tying my hands and saying the
only expressional paradigms I may consider are those that are known on
the day I start programming to be a particular speed.

RT @zzzeek: Top 10 performance issues from big sites: . no. 1: no fine grained queries, identity map, or eagerloads ...

useful tool to test the performance of your websites.

(Skrentablog)

by Elliott Back

or: “how to make zope/python at least 10 times faster”.

Lisp code can be very efficient today: it can run as fast as equivalent C code or even faster in some cases.

running systems that range in the 2000-3000 hits per minute scale,

The next generation of web apps make heavy use of JavaScript and CSS. We’ll show you how to make those apps responsive and quick.

increasing web application response times