Improving performance with real world examples

Everyday, we are looking for ways to improve performance, make MailTank more efficient and help people get things done.

This month we have been focusing on improving performance everywhere - but the Queue page jumped to the top of the list with one email from a customer.

They wrote to say they had over 1300 messages pending in their MailTank!

Guess, their appearance on some major web sites and news outlets catapulted them into the spotlight, and inundated them with new customers asking questions.

This is exactly what MailTank is designed for, but we had never seen such a large burst of messages in such a short period or time.

So we swung into action, placed a filter on their Queue to improve performance and help them get things rolling.

The next 6 hours we mined for buried treasure, looking for those hidden pockets of efficiency lurking beneath the code.

Testing against a real world example made it much easier to find the bottlenecks and whip them into shape.

The result is that loading those insanely large Queue pages is now 600-800% faster.

So gratifying to help a customer in a way that helps everyone using MailTank.