Tag Archives: performance

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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Speed Improvements for Mapping Site

By Patrick | Published: August 5, 2010
Here is just a quick update on my site that allows you to map multiple locations on Google Maps. If you use the site regularly, you may have noticed that it has been slow, and sometimes unresponsive, lately. (Also, you may have noticed some very wonky behavior today, but that was because I was tweaking […]
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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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