This is a case study / story in which i highlight two things that might be useful for junior and even more advanced software engineers alike:

• An internal performance monitor enables quick analysis of service performance
• Database indexes are easy and powerful tools for performance enginering

I have been nominated for the teacher of the year award! Especially after seeing all the other nominations I started feeling like I don’t deserve the honor. However, it is also true that together with my team, we put a lot of effort in coming up with cool project ideas and running them in the timespan of five months. Thus, many thanks and congratulations for my teaching assistants: Laura Baakman, Jeroen Brandsma, Georgios Digkas, Sybren Gjaltema, Jelle van Wezel, Angelo Karountzos, Alexander Lukjanenkovs.