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#"performance-tuning"

API Gateway Tuning in 2014: Scaling Nginx for High-Load REST Architectures

Is your API gasping for air under load? Forget default configurations. We dive deep into Linux kernel tuning, Nginx upstream keep-alives, and the hardware realities needed to handle the mobile revolution's traffic spikes.

Stop Blaming the Code: A Sysadmin’s Guide to Bottleneck Hunting in 2013

Your application isn't slow because of PHP—it's slow because your I/O is choking. Learn how to use strace, iostat, and Nginx stub_status to prove it, and why SSD-backed KVM is the only viable path forward.

Application Performance Monitoring: Stop Guessing, Start Measuring (The 2013 Guide)

Nagios alerts at 3 AM are not a monitoring strategy. Learn how to pinpoint bottlenecks in PHP, MySQL, and Disk I/O using tools like New Relic, iostat, and Nginx stub_status to stabilize your infrastructure.

Stop Guessing: The Sysadmin’s Guide to Real Application Performance Monitoring in 2013

Is your server actually slow, or is it just waiting on I/O? A deep dive into diagnosing Linux performance issues using vmstat, strace, and Nginx metrics, tailored for the Norwegian hosting landscape.