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The Anatomy and Timing of a Web Request – Part I

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  • Post published:2 April 2011
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My academic background was mathematics, specialising in operations research and statistics.  I put this to good use when I first started my career in an IT consultancy, in working one…

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phpBB Performance – Reducing the script load overhead

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  • Post published:11 March 2011
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This is the third in a series of phpBB performance articles and in this one I want to investigate how feasible it would be to use code globbing to reduce…

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phpBB Performance – Reducing the data cache overhead

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  • Post published:9 March 2011
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As I described in a previous article, you can use Linux utility strace to instrument a web request simulation and suPHP model. sudo -u www-data strace -tt -o /tmp/strace.log php…

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phpBB Performance – A 3x challenge

  • Post author:TerryE
  • Post published:9 March 2011
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The trigger for this article was a conversation with Mark Fisher, someone that I mentored through his early career, and who has remained a close friend over the years, though…

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PHP – Why is image activation such an overhead?

  • Post author:TerryE
  • Post published:8 March 2011
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As I’ve discussed in earlier articles, such as Using PHP applications on a Webfusion hosted service (Linux), a webserver will be able to achieve far higher thoughput processing PHP requests…

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Getting burned on PHP operator precedence

  • Post author:TerryE
  • Post published:1 March 2011
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With a POST form, you need to be careful when you return the response that the user might just issue a refresh and in doing so resubmit the form, resulting…

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Putting it all together: my blog engine architecture

  • Post author:TerryE
  • Post published:20 February 2011
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This blog has pretty much turned into a self-referential exercise as a major theme in my articles is the development and performance of the blog engine itself.  This started because…

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Rounding off the use of TinyMCE for WYSIWYG editing

  • Post author:TerryE
  • Post published:16 February 2011
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This is a follow-up a previous article, which described how I use the TinyMCE editor for comment and article creation.  However, at the time of writing this, there were four…

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So why CSS Sprites?

  • Post author:TerryE
  • Post published:11 February 2011
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Use of CSS sprites is an advanced HTML technique that can be a little controversial – at least in terms of questioning whether any potential performance benefits merits the effort…

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A lightweight HTML cache for a Webfusion shared service

  • Post author:TerryE
  • Post published:11 January 2011
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This article takes the optimisation of my blog engine to a next stage.  It develops some of the thoughts and concepts that I’ve previously discussed in the following articles: Using…

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