I’m at Velocity 2008 right now and the keynote I was most excited about this morning introduced http://webpagetest.org/.
This site accepts a URL which it loads over a network connection with the speed of your choice. After loading the site it offers you a waterfall graph of page elements, a screenshot so you can see [...]
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 [...]
Also tagged AMO, 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” [...]
Also tagged AMO, Mozilla, MySQL, PHP, scalabilityI had the joy of debugging some unit tests the other day on AMO and ran into caching trouble. Turns out the bug for this was filed over a year ago, but I tested it in the latest build of Cake (1.1.18.5850) and it’s still not fixed.
Cake’s models have a Boolean variable called $cacheQueries [...]
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