Last month, I attended O’Reilly’s Velocity Web Performance and Operations Conference and, without fail, the information I came away with reinforced existing VMIX initiatives and strategies, and inspired new ones.
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Velocity: The Ultimate Web Performance and Operations Conference
Apache Mod_Deflate and Flash SWF Files Don’t Like Each Other
Recently I was working on a Flex project and upon completion and successful QA, I deployed it on a clients server for use. After embedding the SWF file and adding the data.xml that populated the flash application, I could not load the application in Firefox or IE. Several refreshes would load the application occasionally, however most of the time I just had a grey box. [...]
Some Tuning Tips For Apache Mod_Cache (mod_disk_cache)
So this blog was quite delayed in the writing like months, but better late then never. I was tasked awhile back with creating a caching cluster serving cached API requests and during my research I selected Apache Mod_Cache and below were some things I learned tuning it along the way.
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How much can a memcached server handle?
Memcached is a high-performance, distributed memory object caching system. It is used in a wide range of sites such as livejournal.com and facebook.com as a way to alleviate database load helping to speed up sites. Memcached is usually deployed as an adequate subset of servers in relation to your application and database infrastructure. It’s a great way to cut down your database calls by caching the requests.
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