Posts tagged geeky
Here, There Be Storage Related Dragons…
Feb 3rd
I’m venturing into territory that I don’t understand; disk scheduling algorithms in Linux. If you know more about this than I then please feel free to disabuse me of any mistaken notions, fundamental errors, or unfortunate statements that I may make in the blog post for future updates. This is something that I barely grasp but I like to explore and learn. So at the risk of my professional pride, and with the help of Wikipedia, here I go!
Changing your disk scheduler on a Linux virtual machine to increase performance.
Speeding up CSS
Jan 31st
As web pages become richer and more complex, they can also become burdened with numerous CSS files, background images, icons, and scripts which put additional load on your network and degrade the user experience of your website. Fortunately, there are a few things you can do to improve things.
Feature freeze
Jan 24th
Some of us took the time last week to create something new. I chose to challenge myself by designing a system I had not built before and that I am not ready to share… quite yet. :) But I do want to share something about the design process in very general terms.
The lesson I learned: Feature freeze is a good thing. Know when to stop fixing.
Now early in the project, I had a pretty good idea of what pieces needed to go together but I did not have a very good idea of how to get there. I put down a quick design and while I was doing that I started to see problems..
- Pieces did not fit together.
- Some things were missing.
- This was not going to work.
Time to start learning. I love learning.
Master of the Data Center
Apr 8th
I decided to interview the king of the data center, Mike. He is our CTO here at ipHouse. If you would like to know more about Mike…here is your chance.
