NotesRED is a robot that checks HTTP resources to see how they'll behave, pointing out common problems and suggesting improvements. Although it is not a HTTP conformance tester, it can find a number of HTTP-related issues.Unfurl
NotesIn the Times Interactive News Department, we pay careful attention to caching strategy to make sure it’s a good fit for the project at hand.Unfurl
Notes"APC is the Alternative PHP Cache, which is a free, open, and robust framework for caching and optimizing PHP intermediate code. I posted about how to install APC on Linux a couple of days ago, and will now look at the apc.php script which comes with APC and shows information about how much of the cache is being used, what files are being cached, the number of times they've been accessed etc."Unfurl
Notes"If you host your own WordPress blog, it’s probably on Apache. That all fine and good. For most sites Apache works wonderfully, especially as it’s so easy to find information on it, on mod_rewrite and everything else that everyone else uses.
One of the alternatives is Nginx, a really fast webserver that streaks ahead of Apache in terms of performance, but isn’t quite as easy to use. That’s partly because Apache is the default webserver on most Linux distributions and hosts. Want to try Nginx? Here’s how."Unfurl
Notes"The primero recommendation for speeding up a website is almost always to add cache and more cache. And after that add a little more cache just in case. Memcached is almost always given as the recommended cache to use. What we don't often hear is how to effectively use a cache in our own products. MySQL hosted two excellent webinars (referenced below) on the subject of how to deploy and use memcached."Unfurl
Notes"What I actually want out of this is a kind of de facto standard like Memcached or Apache or whatever that's so simple to understand and use that it changes the way people develop their apps such that they just start with the assumption that some of theirUnfurl
Using Flat Files So Elections Don't Break Your Server - NYTimes.com
mnot’s Web log: Cache Channels Beta