#performance on the community blog
Community posts tagged performance.
- Tech articles
Caching for backend engineers: cache-aside, TTLs and the stampede problem
The caching patterns you will actually use, how to pick TTLs, how to invalidate safely, and how to stop a cache miss from turning into a thundering herd on your database.
- Tech articles
Composite indexes in SQL: why column order decides everything
How a multi-column B-tree index is actually used, the leftmost-prefix rule, and a simple way to choose column order for filters, ranges and sorting, with EXPLAIN examples.
- Tech articles
asyncio, threads or processes? Choosing Python concurrency by workload
A practical decision guide: which Python concurrency model fits I/O-bound, CPU-bound and mixed workloads, with small runnable examples and the traps to avoid.
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