The 12th edition of O’Reilly OSCON (Open Source Conference) took place from 19 – 23 July in Portland, USA. In its first few years OSCON’s main goal was to help big companies realise the value of open source. Since that dream has become a reality, OSCON now focuses on defining, maintaining, and extending the identity of what it means to be open source. It’s also an excellent forum for discussing what future possibilities lie ahead.
Drizzle is a relatively new project with the aim of producing a lightweight relational database system based on MySQL.
There are many things that affect the performance of a web application. A typical web application is normally shown as something like this.
In actual fact, there are multiple layers within each section that can affect the speed of a web application and bottlenecks can occur at almost all of these layers. There are a few techniques that can be used to improve the application’s speed. In order to fully understand the reasoning behind these techniques, a better understanding of the way things work is needed.
When searching the web, search engine results pages (SERPs) traditionally contain three bits of information about a page:
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