delano

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The Air Umbrella(yankodesign.com)
15 points by delano 17y ago|11 comments
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by delano 17y ago
And not just realistic load, but realistic data quantity and quality too.
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Load, Stress and Performance Testing from a Developers Perspective(bennyaustin.wordpress.com)
2 points by delano 17y ago|0 comments
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by delano 17y ago
Storage and caching are two different problems so it's reasonable to assume two separate solutions. In this case, MongoDB is a leap ahead of MySQL; Redis is a leap ahead of Memcached. Both solve the core problems very well and include addit
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by delano 17y ago
Interesting. In my most recent projects, I've been using MongoDB together with Redis. MongoDB for long term data (like records and reports) and Redis for near-realtime stuff (queuing, request limiters, analytics, and the like). I haven't co
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by delano 17y ago
It's posts you've upvoted.
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by delano 17y ago
Not for me. Safari 4.0.4, OS X 10.6.2.
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by delano 17y ago
Yeah I noticed that too. There's also some location inconsistencies! http://www.thestever.net/viewer.php?num=33 http://www.thestever.net/viewer.php?num=34 http://www.thestever.net/viewer.php?num=35
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by delano 17y ago
We could walk too!
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by delano 17y ago
Using production data sets is very important. It's also really important to understand what your users are doing or will be doing with your application. It doesn't matter if the dataset is realistic if the simulated traffic doesn't represen
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by delano 17y ago
Doesn't that make Java the flagship?
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by delano 17y ago
It's polite to add a short sleep between requests. Although, in perl it would be a short select!
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by delano 17y ago
Wow, I'm really impressed with how stable the performance is with EC2. All straight lines.
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by delano 17y ago
For posterity: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=963341
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by delano 17y ago
They laughed when I spoke about my lifestyle business, but when I started to turn a profit!
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by delano 17y ago
The part of my code soul that dealt with search requirements goes out to you.
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by delano 17y ago
Is "Just One File" a reference to Ministry?
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StatusNet Raises $875,000 To Become The WordPress Of Microblogging(techcrunch.com)
4 points by delano 17y ago|0 comments
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by delano 17y ago
Interesting. It would be more useful for me if it displayed only a subset of messages from any one account. Some accounts are very active (e.g. Martha Stewart: http://www.celebsutra.com/tweets/index?profession=Corporate ). I'd like to be
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by delano 17y ago
I'm interested but it doesn't work in Ruby 1.9. I fixed the issues with Banajour itself but there are also several dependencies which don't work with 1.9 either. Too soon!
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by delano 17y ago
Ryan Tomayko recommends Unicorn as a reference for Unix programming (primarily, signals and sockets): http://tomayko.com/writings/unicorn-is-unix I found Sinatra to be an interesting read (and specifically how it parses the app configurat
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A method for finding out if you have a painkiller or a vitamin(flowventures.com)
26 points by delano 17y ago|6 comments
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by delano 17y ago
It's more important as a mental exercise than as absolute advice. Some people put it another way: is your product a vitamin or a painkiller? For a business to become successful, the product will need to become a must have at some point. If
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by delano 17y ago
... you should ramp up slowly when load testing an application on App Engine. Ramping up too quickly won't give an accurate picture of how App Engine scales; you have to accomodate our load balancing code ... The problem with this is that
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by delano 17y ago
I use Jekyll for http://solutious.com/blog . I like it b/c it's a static site generator so the site itself is just a bunch of files (no database, etc...). Jekyll is also integrated into GitHub so the site itself is built and hosted on thei
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The Secret of Object#to_s(solutious.com)
1 points by delano 17y ago|0 comments
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by delano 17y ago
How could this be done online. It has been done online by many independent bands and also by Radiohead in 2007: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_Rainbows#Release
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by delano 17y ago
True, hardware support generally doesn't require ongoing effort like software does but when there are problems than can take a HUGE amount of time (as mechanical_fish highlighted). The other advantage Amazon provides is the API which allows
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by delano 17y ago
It’s unclear when Google planted this Easter egg, but it seems many people learned about it for the first time last night after the company’s search czar Marissa Mayer revealed it in a tweet. They must have released it over the weekend b/
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by delano 17y ago
It's difficult to engage with someone while you put a thought on the back burner for 5 or 10 minutes.

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