I had the slightly dubious privilege this week of standing in at the last-minute as a speaker at a Military conference on security in Prague. On Tuesday at 4:30pm I found out that we needed someone to speak at a conference in Prague the next day… slightly foolishly I volunteered and 24 hours later I found myself …
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How to load balance TCP connections with HAProxy
This week I was at a client where we were doing some performance testing of the JBoss Enterprise Data Services product (EDS for short). EDS is based on the JBoss.org community project Teiid which is a data virtualization system that allows applications to use data from multiple, heterogenous data stores. It’s a really cool product …
Cheap And Easy Cloud Cracking On The Way
Amazon recently announced a new instance type for their EC2 cloud service that they call the Cluster GPU which has an impressive spec: 22 GB of memory 33.5 EC2 Compute Units (2 x Intel Xeon X5570, quad-core “Nehalem†architecture) 2 x NVIDIA Tesla “Fermi†M2050 GPUs 1690 GB of instance storage 64-bit platform I/O Performance: Very …
Do Cameroonian ISPs care about their customers?
I wanted to investigate the typical experience of a Cameroonian Internet user while visiting the websites of the major Internet Service Providers (ISPs). I figured that the time and energy a company puts into optimising their website for slow connections might indicate how focused they are as a company on their customers. After all, if …
How to Optimise WordPress Performance for Search Ranking
Google says that they use the performance of your website as part of your search ranking: You may have heard that here at Google we’re obsessed with speed, in our products and on the web. As part of that effort, today we’re including a new signal in our search ranking algorithms: website speed. Site speed reflects how …
