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Case Study: 10x CouchDB Performance Gains for a AAA Game Launch posted Tuesday, March 4, 2025 by The Neighbourhoodie Team CouchDBbenchmarkperformancecase study

All software benchmarks and claims of performance are carefully crafted lies and this write-up is no different. Instead of giving you a quick “do steps one, two, three for a magic speedup”, we aim to explain how we arrived at the changes we made and how we rigorously tested those changes to make sure we understand their impact.

All this to give you the tools to follow the process yourself, at the end of which, you might come to very different conclusions that are valid for your particular situation which is very likely different from what our customer was dealing with.

If you need help with your CouchDB, Erlang, or just regular Unix networking performance, book a call today.

Hold on to your hats and get ready for a journey of performance discovery! We will learn about CouchDB and Erlang internals, performance tooling and how to find the next bottleneck in your CouchDB cluster setup.