• A reminder; it’s always a people problem
  • A reminder; trust, but verify
  • Things I can never remember;
    • show index from <table>
    • show full processlist
  • The default polling interval for Laravel workers is 3 seconds. If you have certain queues that are more time sensitive, you need to adjust accordingly. But you can only go as low as 1 second. This is another known issue with Laravel that is important when you build larger apps beyond toys. File under ‘things I shouldn’t have to do’
  • Sometimes, its not [just] a query that is misbehaving that is causing a problem, but is a query running in a loop. And you are one of only 5 or 6 people who can trigger it due to environmental stuff.
  • Environment matters. Our current nasty performance problem will only be triggered in production.
  • I have completely lost all comfort doing frontside turns on a snowboard