What is Apdex?

Ever since I started using New Relic I’ve been seeing a number for Apdex. Given that whenever I see a…

More – The file system is slow

A while back I wrote one post on how the overhead of logging was so minimal that the performance impact…

<update>Magento 1 now supports PHP 5.4</update> I woke up this morning with a burning desire to do load tests. Actually,…

I am not a fan of NFS for production information. NFS is great for aggregating data from across multiple different…

Having started working at Magento I have been making myself more familiar with many of the different parts of the…

A couple of days ago I wrote a blog post on how why you should not use .htaccess files, or…

Commonly known as .htaccess, AllowOverride is a neat little feature that allows you to tweak the server’s behavior without modifying…

I have been doing a little playing with Magento over the past couple of days. I’ve been helping out Ebay/Magento…

I asked a question on Twitter on why some of the recommend max_input_time settings seem to be ridiculously large. Some…

I have a new post on using Jetty with PHP-FPM that, if you think this is interesting, you should check that…