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Update: How-To Minimize Load Time for Fast User Experiences. Shows how to analyze the bottlenecks preventing websites and blogs from loading quickly and how to resolve them. 80-90% of the end-user response time is spent on the frontend, so it makes sense to concentrate efforts there before heroically rewriting the
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Informative and well organized post on caching. Talks about: Why do we need cache?, What is Cache?, Cache Hit, Cache Miss, Storage Cost, Retrieval Cost, Invalidation, Replacement Policy, Optimal Replacement Policy, Caching Algorithms, Least Frequently Used (LFU), Least Recently Used (LRU), Least Recently Used 2(LRU2), Two Queues, Adaptive Replacement
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In article Building Super-Scalable Web Systems with REST Udi Dahan tells an interesting story of how they made a weather reporting system scale for over 10 million users. So many users hitting their weather database didn't scale. Caching in a straightforward way wouldn't work because weather
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Our latest strategy is taken from a great post by Paul Saab of Facebook, detailing how with changes Facebook has made to memcached they have: ...been able to scale memcached to handle 200,000 UDP requests per second with an average latency of 173 microseconds. The total throughput achieved is
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Plenty of Fish CEO Markus Frind, famous nerd hero for making over $10 million a year from Google ads on a free dating site he made and ran all by himself, now sees a problem with the free model: As one commenter succinctly put it: the “golden time” of AdSense
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Election night is a big traffic boost for news and social sites. Yahoo expects up to 400 million page views on Election Day. Data Center Knowledge has an excellent article how various sites are preparing to handle spikes in election night traffic. Some interesting bits: Prepare ahead. Don't
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Dormando shows an enlightened middle way for storing sessions in cache and the database. Sessions are a perfect cache candidate because they are transient, smallish, and since they are usually accessed on every page access removing all that load from the database is a good thing. But as Dormando points
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This is a question everyone must struggle with when building out their datacenter. Storage choices are always the ones I have the least confidence in. David Marks in his blog You Can Change It Later! asks the question Should I get a SAN to scale my site architecture? and answers
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OK, there is no "they" and "they" wouldn't care if you knew anyway. After all, this isn't a blog about really important stuff like investing, acne cures, or cheap natural cleansing products. But the secrets are real. Super cloud scaling consultant Kent
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This strategy is stated perfectly by Flickr's Myles Grant: The Flickr engineering team is obsessed with making pages load as quickly as possible. To that end, we’re refactoring large amounts of our code to do only the essential work up front, and rely on our queuing system
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In the era of Web 2.0 traditional approaches to capacity planning are often difficult to implement. Guerrilla Capacity Planning facilitates rapid forecasting of capacity requirements based on the opportunistic use of whatever performance data and tools are available. One unique Guerrilla tool is Virtual Load Testing, based on Dr.
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Update 2: Michael Galpin in Cache Money and Cache Discussions likes memcached for it's expiry policy, complex graph data, process data, but says MySQL has many advantages: SQL, Uniform Data Access, Write-through, Read-through, Replication, Management, Cold starts, LRU eviction. Update: Dormando asks Should you use memcached? Should you