Performance is both technical and a major point in the marketing of the platform [[../business]] Performance optimizations need to be considered in all layers/service components# Platform considerations (box size and other parameters) as well as box loading (when do we scale a customer up?)# Memcache, etc. for OS# Apache tuning for performance characteristics## Aside from <code>ab</code> to measure capacity and benchmarking, we could also use <code>apachetop</code> to measure the volume on the production server.# Database tuning for performance and caching, master/slave read/write# Application settings for take advantage of the above caching and configurations as well as internal performance tweaks (internal caching, job run rate, etc.) == See Also ==https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Aaron_Schulz/How_to_make_MediaWiki_fast{{Deprecated}}