Performance (10)
- You Don't Need to Regularly Reinstall Windows; Here's Why - Crapware - Lifehacker
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One of the most persistent myths about Windows is that you need to reinstall the operating system regularly to keep it running at top performance. Let's take a look at the real problem and how to fix it.
Tags: computer, lifehacker, maintenance, optimization, performance, windows, article - view - prasanth - 01/07/2010 - 10:05 - - -
- Creating Passionate Users: Mediocrity by "areas of improvement"
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How many times in your life (school, career, relationships) have you been told about your "areas of improvement"? How much time and energy have you spent working on those areas? If you're a manager, how much emphasis do you put on those areas during a performance review?
Tags: business, career, management, performance, productivity, article - view - bharath - 11/18/2009 - 00:54 - - -
- Caching in Drupal 6 | drupal.org
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Caches are used to improve the performance of your Drupal site. Rather than extracting the same data over and over again every time a page is loaded, caching stores frequently accessed and relatively static data
in a convenient place and format.
Tags: cache, drupal, performance, advice - view - prasanth - 10/03/2009 - 22:08 - - -
- High performance | groups.drupal.org
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This group is dedicated to solutions and approaches for high traffic, high performing Drupal sites. As such, it will deal with a lot of information around the rest of a typical Drupal "stack" -- the operating system, web server, database, and PHP tweaks that combine to support the Drupal application.
Tags: cache, community, drupal, hosting, mysql, performance, scalability, group - view - prasanth - 10/03/2009 - 14:40 - - -
- Drupal caching with Cache Router | Achieve Internet
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I have been working on upgrading the caching contrib modules to Drupal 6 and started to notice some patterns and duplicated code, which led me to think Drupal's approach to caching in general. We currently have a fairly limited API for caching, but we have a magic bullet that helps us overcome some of these weaknesses:
Tags: cache, drupal, module, performance, tutorial - view - prasanth - 10/03/2009 - 14:39 - - -
- JavaScript: Bad Practices – James Padolsey
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I’ve seen a lot of curious (bordering on horrific) code in my life; and I’d say about half of it was written by me. If you don’t attest to the fact that you once wrote crap code then you’re either a liar or perhaps, have omnipotent powers!
Tags: bestpractices, javascript, performance, programming, tips - view - prasanth - 10/02/2009 - 23:58 - - -
- Improving Drupal's page loading performance | Wim Leers
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Since you're reading this article, you're probably a Drupal developer. It's pretty likely that you've had some visitors of your Drupal-powered web site complain about slow page load times. It doesn't matter whether your server(s) are shared, VPSes or even dedicated servers.
Tags: drupal, optimization, performance, yslow, howto - view - pmarreddy - 10/02/2009 - 20:51 - - -
- scaling drupal - an open-source infrastructure for high-traffic drupal sites | johnandcailin
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the authors of drupal have paid considerable attention to performance and scalability. consequently even a default install running on modest hardware can easily handle the demands of a small website. my four year old pc in my garage running a full lamp install, will happily serve up 50,000 page views in a day,
Tags: architecture, drupal, optimization, performance, scalability, howto - view - pmarreddy - 10/02/2009 - 20:49 - - -
- How Ravelry Scales to 10 Million Requests Using Rails | High Scalability
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Ten years ago a site like Ravelry would have been a multi-million dollar operation. Today Casey is the sole engineer for Ravelry and to run it takes only a few people. He was able to code it in 4 months working nights and weekends. Take a look down below of all the technologies used to make Ravelry
Tags: performance, scalability, advice, tips - view - pmarreddy - 10/02/2009 - 20:42 - - -
- Best Practices for Speeding Up Your Web Site
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80% of the end-user response time is spent on the front-end. Most of this time is tied up in downloading all the components in the page: images, stylesheets, scripts, Flash, etc. Reducing the number of components in turn reduces the number of HTTP requests required to render the page. This is the key to faster pages.
Tags: javascript, performance, website, article, tips - view - pmarreddy - 10/01/2009 - 22:10 - - -
