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Thoughts on capacity planning and web operations.

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Entries from September 2008

More back-of-envelope-math…

September 18th, 2008 · No Comments

Via kottke: some good examples of doing rough math in your head, causing you to guess about assumptions all along the way.
IMHO, being able to do this is one of the things that makes a good web ops person. The examples might be “useless”, but the process is invaluable.

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Tags: "capacity planning" · random · webops

Internet-Scale Efficiency

September 16th, 2008 · No Comments

James Hamilton’s excellent LADIS 2008 presentation has lots of great stuff in it about internet scale bits. Cool stats.

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Tags: "capacity planning" · webops

Why we use GraphicsMagick

September 2nd, 2008 · 6 Comments

Speed: http://www.graphicsmagick.org/www/BENCHMARKS.html
Also, it looks like the GM devs are working on getting OpenMP (parallelism) put into GM processing, which will be a huge boom for multicore boxes. Yay!

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