Following up on our last performance update, we have made a number of changes to both our hardware and software setup – working on multiple levels, such as optimizing code, tweaking our network infrastructure, updating storage, etc..

Regarding code optimization, a number of tweaks have been made. This should be particularly obvious when bulk-synchronizing data via the e-conomic API, or in general use of the Stock Management module (although said Stock Management module does still reduce the speed of a lot of operations, due to the much more complex housekeeping required).

A major change is a move of our database from traditional mechanical disks to flash (memory-based) disks. In addition to a general performance increase, this also results in much more consistent performance, thus resulting in fewer extreme peaks. This isn’t the end of our storage performance improvements, however – during the summer, we will be moving our entire setup to even faster storage.

On the database software side, we are currently looking into an update of both the database engine and operating system. However, such updates always involve a certain risk – both in terms of performance and compatibility – a risk we’re currently working hard to resolve.