14Oct/120
Mac OS X Lion SSD tweaks
A couple of tweaks for the Mac OS X Lion users out there. Since Apple doesn't support TRIM other than on their own drives (cheap b...) and a couple of settings that make more sense when running a hdd with spinning discs, here's the tips I followed:
16Sep/100
6 Ways To Kill Your Servers – Learning How To Scale The Hard Way
Good article over at HighScalability.com about what happens when a coder, even an experienced one, has to scale out a web site under time pressure.
The most important lessons in my opinion are caching, tweaking configuration and stress testing.