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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.