Alan Kent asked on Twitter What is your personal favorite HA distributed queue technology? RabbitMQ? Kafka? Redis? ActiveMQ? Why? — Alan Kent (@akent99) February 4, 2015 You may know that I am partial to
The Wonderful World of Materialized Views (or, Why Indexing in Magento 1.13 Is So Much Faster) When Magento Enterprise 1.13 came out it boasted massive improvement in index operation performance. On the Magento blog
One of the things that I think is important to do in your testing is to introduce some level of randomness into your testing for a web server. In the wild you have almost
I’ve been doing a lot testing with JMeter lately for Magento. I really do like it (Magento and JMeter). It may not be the bestest, most perfectest tool in the world, but a) it’s
I was giving the Magento Performance and Optimization for System Administrator’s course today and I said something that is either borderline brilliant, stupid, or common knowledge. What I said was something along the lines
I wrote a little while ago about how, for running PHP, Nginx was not faster than Apache. At first I figured that it would be and then it turned out not to be, though
Ever since I started using New Relic I’ve been seeing a number for Apdex. Given that whenever I see a floating point number I presume that the calculation will be too complex for me
A while back I wrote one post on how the overhead of logging was so minimal that the performance impact was well worth the benefits of proper logging. I also wrote another blog post
So, I was having a discussion with a person I respect about logging and they noted that often logging poses a prohibitive cost from a performance perspective. This seemed a little odd to me and
I am not a fan of NFS for production information. NFS is great for aggregating data from across multiple different machines, storing deployment files and other such administrative things. Serving static content? No. I