The MYSTERIOUS slow database (and how to fix it)

Sometimes databases become MYSTERIOUSLY slow. When this happens, how do you drill into the data to find a solution? There's a lot of places to look: latency metrics, hardware stats, operating system resource consumption. Here we walk through an example of where to look and how to know you've found the root cause. ---- Welcome to the channel! I make videos about software engineering, databases, and distributed systems. You can find more about me at the links below: X: https://x.com/BenjDicken LinkedIn:   / benjdicken   Web: http://benjdd.com/