July 4, 2012 
When implementing IT solutions, everybody will face the day where a customer isn’t happy with the way an application is performing. Because of the complex infrastructure and vast amount of features of SharePoint, there are many ways to approach these issues. Because of that and the importance of the topic, our first category outlines best practices to tackling performance problems.
- http://sharepointdragons.com/2012/03/05/sharepoint-2010-tips-for-dealing-with-performance-issues/
, perhaps the most comprehensive resource about solving SharePoint 2010 performance issues. - http://www.dell.com/downloads/global/services/SharePoint_2010_Virtual_Small_Farm_Performance_Study_Final.pdf , performance study of virtualized small farm.
- http://www.f5.com/pdf/white-papers/dell-sharepoint-2010-large-farm-performance-study-wp.pdf , large farm performance study.
- http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=7480 , performance studies.
- http://www.cleverworkarounds.com/2012/05/31/demystifying-sharepoint-performance-management-part-1-how-to-stop-developers-blaming-the-infrastructure/ , great series of articles about performance management.
- http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=37B1333C-A8D9-45F9-BE78-9212C2CD3641&displaylang=e&displaylang=en Managing large, up to multi-terabyte content databases.
Source: SharePoint 2010 Best Practices : http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/8666.sharepoint-2010-best-practices-en-us.aspx
