Tag Archives: performance

5 Minute Guide to Clustering – Java Web Apps in Tomcat

I’ve been taking a break from posting for the last couple of weeks. I was starting to get a bit run down, and feel like burn out was about to set in. The kind of blog posts I do take … Continue reading

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MHTML Browser Compatibility – CSS Inlining

MHTML is a technology implementing by Microsoft in Internet Explorer for packaging images, stylesheets and other resources inside a single HTML file. Typically this is used for things like help files, ebooks or other “published” content, but more recently has … Continue reading

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The Results Are In…

And as it turns out, Linode is far, far faster as well as being more consistent for the hosting of this site. Take a look at the graphs, the first was captured from this site in the last couple of … Continue reading

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Move to Linode Complete!

The blog is now happily running on my linode instance! I had previously been hosting the blog on Dreamhost, and had been pretty happy with the service. Recently though, I signed up for a free Pingdom account. Pingdom is a … Continue reading

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