How much can a memcached server handle?
Memcached is a high-performance, distributed memory object caching system. It is used in a wide range of sites such as livejournal.com and facebook.com as a way to alleviate database load helping to...
View ArticleSome Tuning Tips For Apache Mod_Cache (mod_disk_cache)
So this blog was quite delayed in the writing like months, but better late then never. I was tasked awhile back with creating a caching cluster serving cached API requests and during my research I...
View ArticleWhat is The Throughput For an Amazon EC2 Instance?
Since bandwidth throughput when using Amazon Web Services Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) is very important when routing traffic and services I decided to take some measurements and outline them here for...
View ArticleVMIX Leverages Amazon Web Services to Localize Video Processing in Europe and...
VMIX Completes Rollout of Local Video Storage and Processing in Europe and Asia Using Amazon Web Services SAN DIEGO–(BUSINESS WIRE)–VMIX (www.vmix.com), a leading carrier-class online video platform...
View Article50+ Million Objects Totaling 220+ Terabytes in Amazon Web Services S3 Cloud
As Director of Systems Engineering for VMIX, one of the best parts of my job is to share data for different technologies we use and have success with. One of the most interesting statistics we have is...
View ArticleHow to setup Varnish Cache a web application accelerator on CentOS 6.3
This is a how to article on setting up Varnish Cache on CentOS 6.3 64-bit as a single server web application accelerator (caching HTTP reverse proxy). Varnish Cache can increase the speed of your web...
View ArticleHow to Performance Tune Ubuntu 14.04 LTS Trusty in AWS EC2
This article will explain how to performance tune Ubuntu 14.04 LTS Trusty in Amazon Web Services EC2. Building a good base AWS AMI is important and if your using Ubuntu 14.04 this will hopefully be of...
View ArticleHow to make a Python Web App in Virtualenv using Flask, Gunicorn, NGINX on...
This article will cover creating a scalable Python Flask web application on Ubuntu 18.04 using Gunicorn and NGINX. The web application also leverages Virtualenv to provide an isolated Python...
View ArticleA scalable Flask application using Gunicorn on Ubuntu 18.04 in Docker
This article will cover creating a scalable Flask application using Gunicorn on Ubuntu 18.04 in Docker. We loosely are defining Flask application to mean serving up a web page via a GET request,...
View ArticleScaling a Python Flask App with NGINX using Multiple Containers with Docker...
This article will go over scaling a Python Flask application utilizing a multi-container docker architecture. Leveraging Docker Compose we will create a NGINX Docker container that will act as a load...
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