Author: spierzchala

Take that Stallman!
Open Source Beer! [here]

Technorati: beer, open source, free beer
IceRocket: beer, open source, free beer

Blogpulse appears to be suffering from a case of the terminal meltdown.

Does anyone at BlogPulse want to share with the community what the challenges they are facing are? No judgements are made here; the objective to share our Web performance tuning knowledge.

Technorati: BlogPulse, Web Performance, Capacity Planning, Web 2.0, SEO, traffic analysis
IceRocket: BlogPulse, Web Performance, Capacity Planning, Web 2.0, SEO, traffic analysis

Via GapingVoid

Been there; have the scars.

Was in Manhattan yesterday.
No company has enough money to pay me to come to work in Manhattan on a daily basis.

Ok, congrats to Dave Sifry and teh Technorati team. So far today, things look good.

But they are still using broken HTTP to deliver the pages.

HTTP/1.0 200 OK
Date: Wed, 20 Jul 2005 14:24:16 GMT
Server: Apache
Cache-Control: no-store, no-cache, must-revalidate, post-check=0, pre-check=0
X-Powered-By: PHP/4.3.11
Set-Cookie: BLAH! BLAH! BLAH!
Set-Cookie: BLAH! BLAH! BLAH!
Pragma: no-cache
Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8
Connection: close

Throwing hardware at a problem solves the short-term issues; solving the long-term issues means optimizing the delivery of content.

Technorati: web performance, HTTP, Technorati
IceRocket: web performance, HTTP, Technorati

I reported that Feedster’s performance had suddenly improved yesterday. [here]
In the aggregated graph, the classic “runaway CPU/memory leak…OOPS!…REBOOT!” performance pattern appears.

Is anyone at Feedster willing to go on the record about this, just for the education of the group?

Technorati: Feedster, Web Performance
IceRocket: Feedster, Web Performance

You know you want to. DO IT! Click the button!

I really like the maximum zoom level! Very detailed!

Technorati: Google, Google Moon
IceRocket: Google, Google Moon

Previous reports of Feedster’s demise are now disproved.

Go team!

Technorati: Feedster, Web Performance

A neighbour is having some renovations done. Today, they poured concrete. And this is what they left behind.

Love it when a plan comes together…