I got the opportunity to attend the Velocity 2010 Web Performance and Operations Conference last week with most of the rest of the guys from the Ops team at SugarCRM. It took place right around the same time as some other stuff I had going on, so I wasn’t able …
I’m not really sure what made this suddenly appear, but I’ve noticed over the past few days that my initial connections to websites have started taking longer and longer. Today, it became painful as the browser would say it was “Looking up example.com” for a good 3-4 seconds (if not …
Last week was a bad week for tech people all over the world. There were outages reported at several major datacenter providers, including the likes of Rackspace, Equinix, and Google. As any good system administrator will tell you, what goes up will come down. Having a contingency plan is critical …
In today’s computers, CPU throughput and amount of memory are no longer the bottleneck in performance. Ask any server administrator and they will tell you that one of the biggest concerns with responsiveness of server-side applications is the throughput to and from disk. If you’re using the ext3 filesystem, it …
With solid state disks on the horizon, Western Digital has been rumored to release a 20,000RPM hard drive. The news came from bet-tech.net that Western Digital is making the drive as a response to pressure to start converting to solid state disks. Currently, the biggest bottleneck in computer systems seems …