Sunday
Jul202008
The clouds are coming
Sunday, July 20, 2008 at 8:59PM A report from the CloudCamp conference on cloud computing, held in London in July 2008.
Entries by gojko (16)
Sunday, July 20, 2008 at 8:59PM Monday
May052008
Put the web server on a diet and increase scalability
Monday, May 5, 2008 at 3:17AM Misusing HTTP sessions is probably the number one obstacle to building scalable web sites today. Here are some tips how to consume HTTP sessions responsibly.
Monday
Apr072008
Lazy web sites run faster
Monday, April 7, 2008 at 3:56AM It is fairly obvious that web site performance can be increased by making the code run faster and optimising the response time. But that only scales up to a point. To really take our web sites to the next level, we need to look at the performance problem from a different angle.
Tuesday
Mar182008
Database War Stories #3: Flickr
Tuesday, March 18, 2008 at 7:38PM [Tim O'Reilly] Continuing my series of queries about how "Web 2.0" companies used databases, I asked Cal Henderson of Flickr to tell me "how the folksonomy model intersects with the traditional database. How do you manage a tag cloud?"
Tuesday
Jan292008
Speed up (Oracle) database code with result caching
Tuesday, January 29, 2008 at 9:54AM One of the most interesting new features of Oracle 11 is the new function result caching mechanism. Until now, making sure that a PL/SQL function gets executed only as many times as necessary was a black art. The new caching system makes that quite easy -- here is how it works.
Wednesday
Dec262007
Golden rule of web caching
Wednesday, December 26, 2007 at 11:16PM Effective content caching is one of the key features of scalable web sites. Although there are several out-of-the-box options for caching with modern web technologies, a custom built cache still provides the best performance.
