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Is Your WordPress Website Optimised?

YoungUpstarts

WordPress is one of the world’s greatest, if not the greatest, open-source platforms available. The second area to help improve your WordPress website speed is to enable caching. Being the world’s most popular open source platform, WordPress also comes with its security risks. Optimise for Security!

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Lessons Learned: Great open source scalability tools from Danga

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Friday, September 5, 2008 Great open source scalability tools from Danga If you are trying to build a scalable LAMP service, its always best to start with the original and still quite relevant presentation, from Brad Fitzpatrick when he was at LiveJournal. You can find the 2005 version here.

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Choosing Technologies for Your Web Startup (Part 2)

crowdSPRING Blog

Some of the big guys (notably Google, Facebook, LiveJournal) have embraced open source and the results are trickling out to us. It inevitably involves data and content caching, one of the most difficult aspects, engineering-wise, of web development. Is the technology open sourced?

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Don’t Let Slow Load Times Limit Your Potential

YoungUpstarts

The response time of the image source is crucial, so businesses with a huge list of products will often use a content delivery network, or CDN, to provide multiple sources for these images, ensuring each user pulls the items from the nearest server. Set those items to be cached, and they are removed from each reload.

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Benchmarking Cassandra Scalability on AWS - Over a million writes per second

techblog.netflix.com

Writes stress a data store all the way to the disks, while read benchmarks may only exercise the in-memory cache. This team is currently looking for an additional engineer. We use these for read intensive workloads to cache more data in memory. 0 Key cache size / save period in seconds: 200000.0/14400

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Programmer Competency Matrix

www.starling-software.com

Understands the entire programming stack, hardware (CPU + Memory + Cache + Interrupts + microcode), binary code, assembly, static and dynamic linking, compilation, interpretation, JIT compilation, garbage collection, heap, stack, memory addressing. Software Engineering. 2 n (Level 0) n 2 (Level 1) n (Level 2) log(n) (Level 3) Comments.

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SXSW Startups: Molecula

Austin Startup

Their mission is to allow scientists and engineers to focus on the fundamental research needed to solve complex problems without the expensive and difficult data management usually required. You now run Pilosa, what you describe as “an open source, distributed index designed to help analyze huge datasets at UI latency.”