Load balancing an application requires some forethought. Some applications are simple and can handle their load on their own, taking traffic directly from the users
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FastCGI Caching With nginx
As websites become more popular and more highly trafficked things like request latency and scalability obviously become an issue. While it’s true that some requests
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Load Testing With JMeter (Part 3)
OK, so here we are. The home stretch. If you manage to complete this post you can officially consider “JMeter” part of your skillset and
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Load Testing With JMeter (Part 2)
In the previous post on this topic I showed you the basics of doing some things in JMeter. We basically got to the point where
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Load Testing With JMeter (Part 1)
JMeter is one of the most popular (if not the most popular) tool for automated load generation. It’s a tool that’s easy to install and
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Speed Up Your Drupal Website With Redis
In a previous post I briefly went through getting a basic instance of Redis going and how at a code level you to store and
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Speed Up Your Web App With Redis
When a website serves around 25 unique visitors a day we might be alright some latency/overhead as long as it’s not so slow as to
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