Just a quick post on an interesting image I stumbled upon today. It really brings into perspective what the slowest part of a computer system is and where your optimizations should be focused on if you want efficiency. Since it’s a large, but thin image, I couldn’t thumbnail it, so you will find it in [...]
Archive for July, 2009
Varnish – Pretty fly for a reverse proxy
Hypothetical:
So, your website has been gaining traffic and the code has gotten more and more complex and things are starting to slow down. You’ve exhausted the most obvious tweaks, like optimizing a bit of your code (there’s only so much this can do to help), your database queries (a usual source of bottlenecks) and deployed [...]