Redis

Optimization strategy

Sometimes it’s not about just optimizing CPU time away. Looking at the details I could optimize away a badly written SQL query along with some more trivial big-O problem in regard with sorting of video clips which I got out of serialized data. All from a few carefully placed calls. Reducing network bandwidth is just as important as CPU time.
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In process performance statistics with Redis

Every once in a while you need to do a sanity check of your code, how it performs and what you can do to improve it. This is most apparent with a code-base that is developed and refactored over a period of several years. There can be several problems that negatively impact performance due to dependency issues or legacy code that should have been removed but was forgotten during a refactoring sprint.
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