One of the Northscale co-founders gave a very interesting interview about making databases scale horizontally, like Google does, so the database becomes elastic. With common databases like MySQL handling more traffic meant scaling vertically, building a bigger more powerful server, but thanks to Memcached cheap servers, like Cloud servers, can be used in front of [...]
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Google Content Delivery Page Speed Service
Google has been talking a lot about web site performance for years, and it is a difficult problem to solve because it has so many causes. Narrowband dial-up has been replaced by Broadband, but despite the speed difference it isn’t fast enough to satisfy web surfers. After a short time surfers develop a tolerance to [...]
Malware and Spyware Remover Software
Google added this month a malware, or spyware, warning that pops-up to warn your computer is infected, and it offers a link for information that can help fix the problem. On the Google support page they list several anti-virus software that may help including, BitDefender, F-Secure, McAfee (my personal favorite), Microsoft Security Essentials, Microsoft Safety [...]
Spam Free WordPress Comment Spam Plugin
Spam Free WordPress comment spam plugin blocks 100% of the automated spam with zero false positives, and with no CAPTCHA. This plugin was born out of necessity in September of 2007. A comment spam fighting plugin was needed that could handle huge visitor traffic, and huge spam attacks. Today the plugin can scale to handle [...]
Think Rich to Be Rich
There are a ton of books, blogs, and a lot of people who claim to be experts on how to be rich. Some of those people are rich, some want to become rich telling you how to become rich, and some are rich but would like to become richer by telling you how they became [...]