This is a gist with a set of helpful performance tricks and best practices that I've found on the internet.
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  | $ block_writer | |
| 1s: 1025.5/sec | |
| 2s: 1097.1/sec | |
| 3s: 915.0/sec | |
| 4s: 940.8/sec | |
| 5s: 903.9/sec | |
| 6s: 810.9/sec | |
| 7s: 987.9/sec | |
| 8s: 940.5/sec | |
| 9s: 811.3/sec | 
  
    
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  | ✘  ~/go/src/github.com/petermattis/roachdemo   master ●  block_writer | |
| 1s: 1116.9/sec | |
| 2s: 1084.2/sec | |
| 3s: 782.0/sec | |
| 4s: 764.6/sec | |
| 5s: 875.8/sec | |
| 6s: 884.7/sec | |
| 7s: 882.5/sec | |
| 8s: 897.9/sec | |
| 9s: 935.7/sec | 
  
    
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  | ✘  ~/go/src/github.com/cockroachdb/examples-go/block_writer   master ●  block_writer | |
| 2016/06/15 13:27:18 1s: 905.5/sec | |
| 2016/06/15 13:27:19 2s: 947.2/sec | |
| 2016/06/15 13:27:20 3s: 742.4/sec | |
| 2016/06/15 13:27:21 4s: 817.3/sec | |
| 2016/06/15 13:27:22 5s: 846.7/sec | |
| 2016/06/15 13:27:23 6s: 667.0/sec | |
| 2016/06/15 13:27:24 7s: 838.5/sec | |
| 2016/06/15 13:27:25 8s: 990.2/sec | |
| 2016/06/15 13:27:26 9s: 974.8/sec | 
  
    
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  | 2016/06/15 14:23:53 1s: 513.3/sec | |
| 2016/06/15 14:23:54 2s: 534.1/sec | |
| 2016/06/15 14:23:55 3s: 501.5/sec | |
| 2016/06/15 14:23:56 4s: 477.6/sec | |
| 2016/06/15 14:23:57 5s: 470.2/sec | |
| 2016/06/15 14:23:58 6s: 503.9/sec | |
| 2016/06/15 14:23:59 7s: 536.6/sec | |
| 2016/06/15 14:24:00 8s: 495.6/sec | |
| 2016/06/15 14:24:01 9s: 447.9/sec | |
| 2016/06/15 14:24:02 10s: 455.9/sec | 
  
    
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  | ~/go/src/github.com/petermattis/roachdemo/d4   master ●  block_writer | |
| 2016/06/16 16:14:08 1s: 619.9/sec | |
| 2016/06/16 16:14:09 2s: 676.3/sec | |
| 2016/06/16 16:14:10 3s: 630.1/sec | |
| 2016/06/16 16:14:11 4s: 548.9/sec | |
| 2016/06/16 16:14:12 5s: 522.7/sec | |
| 2016/06/16 16:14:13 6s: 584.1/sec | |
| 2016/06/16 16:14:14 7s: 600.4/sec | |
| 2016/06/16 16:14:15 8s: 544.6/sec | |
| 2016/06/16 16:14:16 9s: 616.4/sec | 
  
    
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  | ~/go/src/github.com/cockroachdb/cockroach   figuringoutshit ●  block_writer | |
| 2016/06/20 17:34:02 1s: 0.0/sec | |
| 2016/06/20 17:34:03 2s: 720.0/sec | |
| 2016/06/20 17:34:04 3s: 746.6/sec | |
| 2016/06/20 17:34:05 4s: 716.1/sec | |
| 2016/06/20 17:34:06 5s: 581.9/sec | |
| 2016/06/20 17:34:07 6s: 593.0/sec | |
| 2016/06/20 17:34:08 7s: 659.2/sec | |
| 2016/06/20 17:34:09 8s: 568.6/sec | |
| 2016/06/20 17:34:10 9s: 573.2/sec | 
  
    
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  | ~/go/src/github.com/petermattis/roachdemo/d8   master ●  block_writer | |
| 2016/06/20 17:59:48 1s: 0.0/sec | |
| 2016/06/20 17:59:49 2s: 727.4/sec | |
| 2016/06/20 17:59:50 3s: 733.1/sec | |
| 2016/06/20 17:59:51 4s: 735.5/sec | |
| 2016/06/20 17:59:52 5s: 596.9/sec | |
| 2016/06/20 17:59:53 6s: 619.7/sec | |
| 2016/06/20 17:59:54 7s: 652.9/sec | |
| 2016/06/20 17:59:55 8s: 598.1/sec | |
| 2016/06/20 17:59:56 9s: 639.1/sec | 
  
    
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  | ✘  ~/go/src/github.com/cockroachdb/cockroach   figuringoutshit ●  block_writer | |
| 2016/06/20 18:21:11 1s: 0.0/sec | |
| 2016/06/20 18:21:12 2s: 649.4/sec | |
| 2016/06/20 18:21:13 3s: 566.4/sec | |
| 2016/06/20 18:21:14 4s: 535.0/sec | |
| 2016/06/20 18:21:15 5s: 588.5/sec | |
| 2016/06/20 18:21:16 6s: 569.8/sec | |
| 2016/06/20 18:21:17 7s: 597.8/sec | |
| 2016/06/20 18:21:18 8s: 564.8/sec | |
| 2016/06/20 18:21:19 9s: 595.6/sec |