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Stack Overflow - it's all about performance
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Marco Cecconi
November 07, 2014
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Stack Overflow - it's all about performance
Slides of the presentation given in November 2014 at Øredev
Marco Cecconi
November 07, 2014
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Transcript
Marco Cecconi @sklivvz http://sklivvz.com
ARCHITECTURE? WHAT THE HECK IS THAT?
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Grew to 130 sites (+20%) Global site rank went from
#56 to #44 (-12)
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*source: Quantcast, Alexa #50-‐ish network for traffic* (between imdb.com
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http://stackexchange.com/performance
Agile
BAT!CAVE Code-build-test cycle running on home machine feature requests
BAT!CAVE DEV.SO Test on the real servers git push
BAT!CAVE DEV.SO META.SE 1-click deploy Users test on meta.stackexchange.com (“baking”)
git push
BAT!CAVE DEV.SO META.SE 1-click deploy HALP! git revert git push
BAT!CAVE DEV.SO NETWORK META.SE 1-click deploy git push 1-click deploy
It’s live! Tons of users use it…
BAT!CAVE DEV.SO NETWORK META.SE 1-click deploy git push 1-click deploy
…and provide new feature requests
Move fast and break things* * Not the home
page or question page :-)
Move fast and break things* * Not the home
page or question page :-)
Abusing caching
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Our frienemy: The Garbage Collector
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Cache abuse to help GC
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Compiler abuse to help GC
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IRepository<Order> orderRepository = container.Resolve<IRepository<Order>>();
Order order = orderRepository.Get(35); Ye olde dependency injection
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IRepository<Order> repository = new ValidatingOrderRepository (
new SecurityRepository<Order> ( new LoggingRepository<Order> ( new CachingRepository<Order> ( new NHibernateRepository<Order> () ) ) ) ); Order order = repository.Get(35);
Our source code
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YAGNI* * You Ain’t Gonna Need It!
Libraries and open source
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Wrap code in libraries and open source it
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“SUPERHERO” CODING
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TOOLS LEVEL: “NINJA”
• Performance is a feature • Always.
Be. Shipping. • Use your circumstances. • Open source your libraries • 3 obscenely big monitors. KEY TAKEAWAYS
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Marco Cecconi @sklivvz http://sklivvz.com we are hiring new ninjas from
anywhere in the world!