Reasons why Redis is a great option for a worker queue in Magento
Alan Kent asked on Twitter What is your personal favorite HA distributed queue technology? RabbitMQ? Kafka? Redis? ActiveMQ? Why? —…
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Alan Kent asked on Twitter What is your personal favorite HA distributed queue technology? RabbitMQ? Kafka? Redis? ActiveMQ? Why? —…
The Wonderful World of Materialized Views (or, Why Indexing in Magento 1.13 Is So Much Faster) When Magento Enterprise 1.13…
One of the things that I think is important to do in your testing is to introduce some level of…
I’ve been doing a lot testing with JMeter lately for Magento. I really do like it (Magento and JMeter). It…
I was giving the Magento Performance and Optimization for System Administrator’s course today and I said something that is either…
I wrote a little while ago about how, for running PHP, Nginx was not faster than Apache. At first I…
Ever since I started using New Relic I’ve been seeing a number for Apdex. Given that whenever I see a…
A while back I wrote one post on how the overhead of logging was so minimal that the performance impact…
So, I was having a discussion with a person I respect about logging and they noted that often logging poses…
I am not a fan of NFS for production information. NFS is great for aggregating data from across multiple different…