The document discusses performance tuning and optimization for client/server systems. It covers improving performance at the client level through hardware upgrades like faster processors and more memory, and software optimizations like using a multitasking operating system and optimizing application performance. Server-side optimizations include upgrading hardware, offloading processing to server CPUs, and using multiple servers. The document also discusses database performance tuning through efficient index design, query design using WHERE clauses to reduce data access, and database normalization.