The linked article from Sam's blog: http://samsaffron.com/archive/2011/05/02/A+day+in+the+life+of+a+slow+page+at+Stack+Overflow# http://samsaffron.com/archive/2

The linked article from Sam's blog: http://samsaffron.com/archive/2011/05/02/A+day+in+the+life+of+a+slow+page+at+Stack+Overflow# http://samsaffron.com/archive/2011/05/02/A+day+in+the+life+o... I found it to be much more interesting and a cool look at how he went about actually finding the slowdown and the steps he took to fix it.