Developing for Performance: application profiling can save you millions.
Recently read up on some features of Google’s AppEngine. They impose quotas and limits on developers who use AppEngine for hosting. My favorite is limiting processing time to a maximum of 30 seconds...
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I’m currently reading the 1st edition from 2007: High Performance Web Sites: Essential knowledge for front end engineers. In the near term, Chapter 4 (which talks about Rule 2: Use a Content...
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do shell script "/Applications/Firefox.app/Contents/MacOS/firefox-bin -P TargetProfileName TargetURL > /dev/null 2>&1 &" Substitue your required values for TargetProfilename and TargetURL...
View ArticleWill Cloud Computing be the Sub-Prime of IT?
Sub-prime lending enabled a great quantity of borrowers, lenders, and investors to participate in markets and transactions which they most often did not fully understand. In many (perhaps most) cases...
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