Archive for the 'caching' Category

How Basecamp Next got to be so damn fast without using much client-side UI – (37signals)

Thursday, March 1st, 2012

Interesting notes from 37signals about caching approach. (Make sure to read the comments, there is a message from Jeff Bezos, CEO of Amazon)

How Basecamp Next got to be so damn fast without using much client-side UI – (37signals)

Thursday, March 1st, 2012

Interesting notes from 37signals about caching approach. (Make sure to read the comments, there is a message from Jeff Bezos, CEO of Amazon)

Caching & Performance: Lessons from Facebook

Sunday, October 30th, 2011

Slides describe how FB uses caching at web server/php layer. ($GLOBALS->apc_cache->memcache->MySQL)

Caching & Performance: Lessons from Facebook

Sunday, October 30th, 2011

Slides describe how FB uses caching at web server/php layer. ($GLOBALS->apc_cache->memcache->MySQL)

ArchitectNotes – Varnish [what's wrong with caching things in memory]

Thursday, March 25th, 2010

excellent notes about app design, and what can happen if an app tries to implement its own memory management

Peter Eisentraut’s Blog: Solid-State Drive Benchmarks and the Write Cache

Monday, November 16th, 2009

read this before rushing to by some SSDs

Brian "Krow" Aker’s Idle Thoughts – The Death of Read Replication

Thursday, April 10th, 2008

interesting thoughts and notes about DBs and scalable systems

Apache::DBI::Cache – a DBI connection cache – search.cpan.org

Thursday, March 6th, 2008

yet another module that does connection caching

Peter Van Dijck’s:: A bunch of presentations on scaling websites: twitter, Flickr, Bloglines, Vox and more.

Sunday, November 18th, 2007

a collection of presentation on hi loaded web apps and their architecture

Scaling with memcached » SlideShare

Thursday, November 8th, 2007

nice presentation on memcached