Technical insights and best practices for Backend Development
Synchronous code is the enemy of scale. Learn how to implement RabbitMQ to offload heavy tasks, why 'ulimit' matters, and why your message broker needs the low latency of a Norwegian VDS.
Is your site stalling under load? It might be disk I/O on /tmp. We explore replacing file-based sessions with the emerging Redis key-value store to slash latency.
Is your LAMP stack choking on session locks? Forget MySQL and file-based storage. We test the new Redis project against Memcached and show you how to cut latency by 80% using high-performance Xen VPS nodes.
Is your disk I/O choking on session files? Learn why file-based session management is obsolete and how the new Redis project offers a persistent, sub-millisecond alternative for high-load applications.
Stop guessing which RDBMS fits your stack. We dissect the MySQL vs PostgreSQL debate, storage engine locking headaches, and why low-latency I/O in Norway is critical for database performance in 2009.