Tag: optimization

Five tools — eatmydata, mold, ccache, distcc, tmpfs — turn a 14-minute build into 90 seconds. Same compiler, same hardware. Any build system: make, cmake, autotools, ninja, Debian packaging. Here is how to wire them in, what each one breaks, and the order to enable them in.

Meet Database Boost, the free WordPress database optimization plugin that cleans, repairs, optimizes and indexes your database — and actually explains every step in plain English.

Google PageSpeed was the magic module that automatically made your website faster — until Google quietly walked away from it. Here’s the full story: what PageSpeed actually did, why it’s now effectively dead on NGINX and Angie, and what you should use instead.