During my time as a web developer I’ve had the opportunity to work on some application that needed serious scalability. But scaling isn’t something we always think of when we set off to build an application. So, here’s a few tips I’ve picked up on the way that can help you build applications that are [...]
Exploring Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)
servers / 15th April 2008 / By Elliot
This week I’ve been reading a great deal about Amazon EC2, a service which lets you rent servers from Amazon’s huge server farms from as little as 10 cents/hour ($73/month). The principle behind EC2 is genius. You select which ‘AMI’ (linux image) you want to start your server with, then choose what spec you want. [...]
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Optimizing and Scaling your CodeIgniter Application – with Benchmarks!
codeigniter, php / 13th February 2008 / By Elliot
Scaling and Optimizing your CodeIgniter Application, with Benchmarks There’s been a few discussions recently about optimizing CodeIgniter applications to make them faster, more reliable, and scalable. So, let’s look at some methods of doing this, with ‘real’ numbers and benchmarks. ‘Baseline’ – The Bog Standard First of all, we need to build a little controller [...]
