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Category Archives: Performance

..been hacking IIS, tomcat, load balancing and FatWire all day..

great for a change… what did we learn? IIS and Tomcat integration still sucks, load balancing in the plugin is so neat and simple.. VMWare bare metal virtualisation and physical redundancy rocks all the time, IIS (7.x) has come a long way since the “dark days”.. …and should have known about the free awesome(!) www.cloudshare.com instant-on virtualisation [...]

Posted 18 May 2010 † daniel § Code § FatWire § Installations § Technology ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , ,

How MySpace performance tested 1 million concurrent users from EC2!!

wow! How MySpace performance tested 1 million concurrent users from EC2!! http://nexle.dk/l/z3i @LozCrowther – just unbelievable (would love to have been part of that project!) //

Posted 05 March 2010 † daniel § Companies § Technology ‡ Comments (0) °

Google’s 10 golden design principles – always worth remembering

http://tinyurl.com/68e8zq //

Posted 21 August 2009 † daniel § Code § Companies § Google § Marketing § Technology § Usability § Web 2.0 ‡ Comments (0) °

Different Cache Implementations

Looking into different cache modules for high performance dynamic websites. Looks like many of the big sites (YouTube, Flickr, New York Times and many more) are using memcached which looks to be a very interesting and straight forward piece of software.. Then as I have the luxury of working in a pure J2EE environment I [...]

Posted 01 June 2008 † daniel § Code § Technology § Useful tools ‡ Comments (0) °

Real world high performance web architectures – good read

Must say I never heard of highscalability.com before… but if you are into designing large-scale web application this is a very good site with some juicy reads on real life architectures; SlashDot, Flickr, Youtube, Wikimedia, Twitter and many more examples; http://highscalability.com/slashdot-architecture-how-old-man-internet-learned-scale //

Posted 07 January 2008 † daniel § Technology ‡ Comments (0) °