2008-01-28
AOL releases pagetest
AOL just released an internal performance tool called "Pagetest":http://pagetest.wiki.sourceforge.net/.
It's a IE plugin which breaks down how long the individual components take. very similar to "ItScales":http://itscales.com/ stuff I did years ago. (but much better).
Gratz Dave, Carson, & Pat!
2006-07-09
Announce: Performance monitoring for Django
Perfmon is a tool to help you diagnose your performance and QA issues within your "Django":http://djangoproject.com application. I've decided to charge $20 for it. People using it for debugging open source projects can get it for free. Is this a sell out? I hope people don't see it this way.
2006-06-28
memcached performance
two interesting posts arrived on the memcached list which might be interesting to performance people. The first was a comparison of "The fastest lanugage binding":http://dealnews.com/developers/memcached.html on which 'P' language performed better. To make a note the PHP version actually uses "libmemcache":http://people.freebsd.org/~seanc/libmemcache/ a 'C' library which goes a bit of the way to explain the wild disparity ...
2005-12-18
request for the CDN's
here's a heartfelt request for someone *else* to do. Wouldn't it be wonderful if akamai or someone else with large fat pipes offered to host some of the more common javascript libraries instead of every company forcing you to download the same thing off *their* server? or better yet.. if mozilla could have a way to integrate it into their regular download. say your page wants ...
2005-12-08
What is 99% uptime anyway?
in Don’t scale: 99.999% uptime is for Wal-Mart he mentioned that 37signals is quite happy with 98% uptime, and the cost of increasing uptime isn't worth it. Here is a brief summary of what a extra '9' will give you as far as uptime. (as a rule of thumb, each extra nine you add a extra zero at the end of the price it will ...