I have to admit I am obsessed with web performance, and I spend a lot of time analysing server-side performance graphs. Recently I noticed a significant spike in database CPU usage as well as the web server CPU usage on one of my many websites. Almost all of my websites are on WordPress 3.7.1 (at […]
I’m sure you’ve all used or at least heard of New Relic application monitoring tool. If you haven’t, you’ve been living in a cave for the last couple of years 🙂 It’s a great tool for pinpointing bottlenecks in your application. However, most people have this tool installed on their production systems only. What if […]
Newrelic?is an application monitoring tool that truly is developer’s best friend. It’s such a true statement. ?I’ve used Newrelic to pinpoint and successfully troubleshoot numerous applications. ?I’ve recently switched all database tables from MyISAM to InnoDB for a couple of reasons that are outside the scope of this post. What came to my intention is […]