Month: July 2005

Blogpulse appears to be suffering from a case of the terminal meltdown.

Does anyone at BlogPulse want to share with the community what the challenges they are facing are? No judgements are made here; the objective to share our Web performance tuning knowledge.

Technorati: BlogPulse, Web Performance, Capacity Planning, Web 2.0, SEO, traffic analysis
IceRocket: BlogPulse, Web Performance, Capacity Planning, Web 2.0, SEO, traffic analysis

Via GapingVoid

Been there; have the scars.

Was in Manhattan yesterday.
No company has enough money to pay me to come to work in Manhattan on a daily basis.

Ok, congrats to Dave Sifry and teh Technorati team. So far today, things look good.

But they are still using broken HTTP to deliver the pages.

HTTP/1.0 200 OK
Date: Wed, 20 Jul 2005 14:24:16 GMT
Server: Apache
Cache-Control: no-store, no-cache, must-revalidate, post-check=0, pre-check=0
X-Powered-By: PHP/4.3.11
Set-Cookie: BLAH! BLAH! BLAH!
Set-Cookie: BLAH! BLAH! BLAH!
Pragma: no-cache
Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8
Connection: close

Throwing hardware at a problem solves the short-term issues; solving the long-term issues means optimizing the delivery of content.

Technorati: web performance, HTTP, Technorati
IceRocket: web performance, HTTP, Technorati

I reported that Feedster’s performance had suddenly improved yesterday. [here]
In the aggregated graph, the classic “runaway CPU/memory leak…OOPS!…REBOOT!” performance pattern appears.

Is anyone at Feedster willing to go on the record about this, just for the education of the group?

Technorati: Feedster, Web Performance
IceRocket: Feedster, Web Performance

You know you want to. DO IT! Click the button!

I really like the maximum zoom level! Very detailed!

Technorati: Google, Google Moon
IceRocket: Google, Google Moon

Previous reports of Feedster’s demise are now disproved.

Go team!

Technorati: Feedster, Web Performance

A neighbour is having some renovations done. Today, they poured concrete. And this is what they left behind.

Love it when a plan comes together…

Oh, lookee here. GW Shrub appears to be backtracking. Now Karl has to be convicted before he gets fired.
Mr. President, if he’s convicted, you are most likely going to be down in Crawford, TX having an extended vacation. And the Acting President will most likely be Mr. Hastert. [Presidential Order of Succession]
Hey, I hear San Diego is looking for a new mayor! [here]

Technorati: Karl Rove, KarlRove, Valerie Plame, ValeriePlame, Dick Cheney, White House, CIA

We caved and bought some window air-conditioners for our house.
It wasn’t this bad last summer.
Ugh.