DeGraeve.com: April 2010

Witty Profiles Optimization

Last week I released a complete rewrite of WittyProfiles.com.  The goal of the rewrite was to reduce the database load and cache as many queries as possible.  After about a week of monitoring, database load is way down and an average of 92% of MySQL queries are in memcached.  The best part is that the users are happy with the increased performance.  I guess it was worth taking the 6 months to transform 7 years of clunky PHP functions into modern object oriented code.