Came across a project of key value database. It smiler to memcache but also provides lists and sets with atomic operations to push/pop elements. It is said to be fast 10000 SETs/second, 81000 GETs/second in an entry level Linux machine. More details can be found at http://code.google.com/p/redis.
When we performing full-text searching through a number of large indexes it is important that we get results in shortest time possible. To ensure this SPHINX provides feature of “Distributed Searching”. Today we will look how we will look on SPHINX’s ability to perform distributed searching. If you don’t know what sphinx is please refer [...]
In an recent post famous MySQL Performance blog recommends use of SPHINX for full-text searching. Full-text indexing is one thing that stops most of the people to upgrade to InnoDB storage engine, and leaving MyISAM. The post is focused on what to do with full-text when going to InnoDB. Several solutions are mentioned like Use [...]
How do you implement full-text search for that 10+ million row table, keep up with the load, and stay relevant? Sphinx is good at those kinds of riddles. Sphinx stands for SQL Phrase Index. It is free, open source, powerful, easy to use, full-text search engine, which comes with apis in PHP and other languages. [...]
Browser cache for images is a great feature and potential area of improvement to enhance web page performance. We can tell browser to use images from cache and should not request these from server until they expire. Apache server makes it really easy to add expiry time for images through .htaccess file. As images used [...]
To improve web page performance it is good idea to serve static content from a cookie less domain. What is Cookies less domain? Domain which don’t require any cookies from client to serve the request is called cookie less domain. For example if we need to serve static images, there is no need to get [...]
