Posts by Jason Ho

Scaling a Saas Backend System: Optimization with PostgreSQL

How to improve the performance of an SaaS that runs on PostgreSQL. Learn how to collect data on slow queries and visualize the collected data.



December 4, 2012 | Category: | Leave a Comment

Scaling a Saas Backend System with Shards

Optify Inbound Marketing Software collects clickstream data for our clients, the B2B marketers. While it is easy for our clients to incorporate Optify software, managing the collected data gets increasingly harder as time goes by. Admittedly, this is a good problem to have (because customers love Optify and keep the data flowing.) And it is fun to scale the system to give our clients a responsive application.



October 25, 2012 | Category: | Leave a Comment

Scaling a SaaS Backend System

How the Optify development team uses caching, ehcache and terracotta to improve the performance of the Optify Inbound Marketing Software for B2B Marketing professionals.



September 13, 2012 | Category: | Leave a Comment