Yesterday, igvita.com published a short article summarizing memcached internals and best practices. It was originally a talk by Brian Aker and Alan Kasindorf and their slides are included. It’s a good read and digs into memcached’s memory management and expiration logic. (Thanks for the heads up, chenb).
I noticed their first best practice [...]
Still on a high from our success with memcached in AMO version 2, we decided to go a fairly common route and cache query results in version 3. This performs admirably particularly with our rediculously long and slow queries. Over time, though, the popularity of the site and the load on the servers [...]
Tagged AMO, caching, CakePHP, Mozilla, scalabilityStruggling with scalability on AMO is nothing new but the tools we use to solve the problems have changed over time. Here is a bit of information on the performance evolution AMO has gone through. I wanted to link to the wayback machine for all our old versions, but I get “Redirect Errors” [...]
Tagged AMO, caching, Mozilla, MySQL, PHP, scalabilityThese are our current options for submitting forms in Firefox 3:
I don’t know anyone that has the “I submit information that’s not encrypted” option checked. We used to prompt for submitting information that was unencrypted, next we added an option on the dialog that disabled the warning (and was checked by default), and finally [...]
Tagged Firefox, Mozilla, securityLaura attended CakeFest a couple months ago and got to meet some core Cake developers in person. In doing so she let slip that AMO was running on a pretty old version (1.1.12 – Released in December of 2006). Apparently 1.1.15 had some major performance boosts and since we melted the cluster a [...]
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