Tag Archives: database

Mapping site should be faster now

By Patrick | Published: December 11, 2010
Over the past few weeks, I have been noticing that the site I created to allow users to plot multiple addresses on Google Maps would sometimes become very slow when a lot of people are using it. So, I started to investigate the cause. (I am going to split this post into two sections, the […]
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a tip to prevent deadlocks on database connections (or, at least detect them early)

By Patrick | Published: June 22, 2010
It seems there were a lot of points in our code base at work that are ripe for deadlocking on database connections. We are acquiring a connection, and then calling some other methods, and a few frames down the stack, we acquire another connection (before releasing the first). This, of course, can result in a […]
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