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The Evolving Definition of Cloud Computing

Different working-groups have defined and re-defined cloud computing over the last few years. Peter Mell, Timothy Grance, Murugiah Souppaya, Lee Badger and other brilliant minds working together with the NIST (National Institute of Standards and Technology) have drafted a document

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Benchmarking Nginx in the cloud

Summary 11,969 http requests handled @ 84 nanoseconds across 100 concurrent connections? Yeah. Here’s what happened: root@ip-10-161-82-11:/var/www/nginx-default# ab -n 1000000 -c100 http://localhost:80/ This is ApacheBench, Version 2.3 Copyright 1996 Adam Twiss, Zeus Technology Ltd, http://www.zeustech.net/ Licensed to The Apache Software

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Posted in cloud computing, performance analysis

Scalability: Facebook Releases HipHop – An Open Source PHP to C++ Transformer

Facebook is written mostly in PHP, which generally scales well for most sites. Large scale web sites can greatly reduce memory resource utilization as well as CPU resource utilization by eliminating unused and inefficient code instructions. Although PHP is considered

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Browser Response: Scaling Rails Applications in the Cloud by Making Use of Content Distribution Networks

Test page responsiveness with: Firebug (Firefox plugin) tells you how long it takes to load each web component. If you decide to use Firebug, then also install page speed for Firebug. In Safari you can check show develop menu and

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