Our Sr. Web Operations Engineer, Justin Lintz, goes over some parameters we tuned in TCP and NGINX to improve the performance and stability of our systems. These slides are a complement to a two part blog post found over on our engineering blog. http://engineering.chartbeat.com/2014/01/02/part-1-lessons-learned-tuning-tcp-and-nginx-in-ec2/ http://engineering.chartbeat.com/2014/02/12/part-2-lessons