Recently I have revisited the performance issue on my largest project - Diorama.Ru.  4000 users with 60.000 page views hitting the server every day. I am proud to have such a “playground” for performance optimization.

We’ve started with the MySQL tuning several months ago, then I have introduced the application level caching using Smarty template engine and finally pushed the last button - Apache gzip compression via mod_deflate.

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On the first pages of ABAP Performance Tuning I’ve already learned something new. One of the most powerful methods of the performance tuning is the Kiwi Approach.

Kiwi = Kill It With Iron.