Samenvatting

Reprovinci is a small company targeting small to medium businesses and non-profit organisations. They have their own content management system, which has, through the years, become slower. Reprovinci wished to counter this drop in performance. This was a challenge to me, as I have never had to analyse an ill-performing system. In the past months, it has been my task to analyse the cause of these performance issues, and propose and realise solutions.

Having set a bold goal, I did not achieve this goal, not having had enough time; there is still a lot to be done in order to achieve that goal. I recommend Reprovinci to implement the proces of code review to ensure future code will be of good quality, to upgrade software and change the database design of the main feature that drives their content management system.

This document starts with describing the situation and then mixes performance and optimisation theory and practice to form an informative document, serving as both my thesis and as a transferal of knowledge and recommendations to Reprovinci.