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  • Mac OS X Lion SSD tweaks

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    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: http://blog.alutam.com/2012/04/01/optimizing-macos-x-lion-for-ssd/ http://www.dashvue.com/2011/12/optimizing-mac-os-x-for-ssd/

  • 6 Ways To Kill Your Servers – Learning How To Scale The Hard Way

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    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.