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Seen by Jeremy on April 16 2010:

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Campfire just got snappier. Pratik treated the lobby, room sidebar, and guest invitations to a course of intensive performance therapy, shaving a good 30% from our average response time.

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5 comments so far

Ryan 16 Apr 10

How did you do it?

Jacek Becela 16 Apr 10

below 100ms – cool. few years ago 100ms ping was a max in multiplayer games like quake 2 or quake 3.

Jon 17 Apr 10

Cool, what do you use to monitor response times?

JK 17 Apr 10

Ryan, by restructuring and optimizing hot-spot database access.

Jon, we use New Relic RPM for performance monitoring and immediate tuning feedback. Indispensable.

DKS 18 Apr 10

@JF

What’s “hot-sport database access”?

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