Speeding Things Up
Last night it became painfully obvious that I had to do something to speed up statzen before I could go much further. After some quick indexes and a little database configuration tuning, some queries went from 5 seconds to milliseconds.
This is a huge step towards letting people use the system. You may have noticed it is not just the database that is speeding up. Development has accelerated over the past two weeks as well. This is mostly because I have been getting some very positive feedback from people I have been talking to. I have also been very fortunate to be able to work smart, not hard. I think last night I deleted more lines of code than I wrote, but in doing so I was able to add more functionality to the system.
While I have not been making releases public, I have been following the “release early, release often” mantra. Last night I crossed the 150th revision in subversion and I have deployed at least 30 releases to the server over the past few months. Once I start letting people on the server I will probably limit releases to once a week or so for a while.
If you are itching to be one of the early alpha testers, leave a comment here or shoot me an email. The time is getting near.
Tags: development, performance, prelaunch, statzen