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I put together a Grails app to try out memcached. Like a lot of things in Grails, it was quite simple to integrate memcached once I found the right magic words. hibernate-memcached works nicely and has clear setup instructions. Install memcached, which is simple if you use a Mac and have MacPorts installed. $ sudo port install [...]
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We recently had a tech talk about scalability as it pertains to developing web applications. Many best practises were discussed including load balancing, clustering, highly-available databases, eventually consistent application designs. In most web applications, the proportion of dynamic requests (application logic) to static requests (images, javascript, css, html, flash) is usually quite low. As a result, [...]
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As I mentioned in my post yesterday, I was expecting more from the conference today than I experienced yesterday. What I’m expecting at a tech conference is to talk tech such that the speaker presents their expertise or lessons learned. I didn’t get much of that yesterday but today was another story. We kicked off [...]
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