Tech
Today, I decided to explore Cloudflare features in a bit more depth. I currently manage quite a few applications, both personal and business related on the platform. One feature which I'd never really looked into before was Page Rules. I'd read about them, but never actually ...
Marc Qualie
Recently I've been looking into a lot of Technology and Software to improve the performance and scalability of some of the projects I've been working on. This has been proving difficult as we implement more and more features, adding extra strain to databases, web servers and ...
This week a colleague needed to work from home to finish up some code for our new internal site launch next week. Unfortunately, since we develop on Linux at work, and he uses windows at home, this wasn't such a smooth process of getting the files to render correctly on the ...
Today, I installed Varnish Cache onto my Amazon EC2 server to test drive it's performance. I had recently discovered sites such as Facebook are using Varnish as a way of delivering the billions of photo requests they receive daily; which must mean this thing can really take ...
Today I was experimenting with various caching techniques in PHP and Apache to try to speed up my site, while still keep all of my content real-time and efficient. I will be writing a full post on my experiment and my results later on tonight, but for now I just want to write ...
PHP, while known for it's simplicity and scalability, is an overall slow and memory consuming language. I my 5 years of programming, I've managed to build myself a fully custom and highly optimized set of libraries which I use in a lot of my projects. These libraries range ...
As you may know I recently relaunched Squiggle Canvas. Whilst re-coding the site I noticed the entire engine was very glitchy, and the JavaScript hang time for drawing was between 500-1000ms. This was the time needed to Chrome to take some input, run a function, draw ...
Over at Google they are always trying to make the internet faster, and just generally better for all of us Speed Craving Humanoids. They weren't happy with just customizing the web pages themselves (even though they released many tools for this such as Google Page Speed and ...
