By: Robert Baskin (Online Director)
Well, after some delay, I can now bring you the final post in my caching series. This one is about view caching, which is where the real awesome technology happens! If you haven’t read parts one, two, three and four, go back and take a look at them first – this post will make more [...]
By: Robert Baskin (Online Director)
This post is the third in my series about how we using caching here at the Yale Daily News. If you haven’t had a chance to read parts one and two, you should check them out first.
By: Robert Baskin (Online Director)
It’s time for the second post in my series about caching and how we use it here at the Yale Daily News. If you haven’t read the first part, you should: It introduces the series and some important concepts.
By: Robert Baskin (Online Director)
Well, it’s finally time to talk about how we use caching here at the Yale Daily News. I initially promised a post, but after starting this first one and realizing how long it was getting, it will now be a series of at least two and maybe more posts! Allllright!
By: Robert Baskin (Online Director)
So finally we come to the Server header, which I have alluded to previously.
By: Robert Baskin (Online Director)
I know I said my next post would have to do with our new Server header that we’re sending back, but I just wanted to get this in while it’s fresh in my mind. And plus, MySQL optimization is always worth talking about!
By: Robert Baskin (Online Director)
So in my last post, I promised I would write up some of the work we planned to do to improve performance when we had a chance to actually implement the proposed changes. Well, we’ve done quite a bit of work in the past week. I’ll talk about some of the changes and leave some [...]
By: Robert Baskin (Online Director)
Last Thursday around 8 a.m., I received a phone call from our Online Editor informing me that the Web site was down, and politely asking if I could get it back online as soon as possible. It seems we had been linked to by the Drudge Report (to our story on Aliza Shvarts), and the [...]
By: Robert Baskin (Online Director)
Dear YaleDailyNews.com subscribers,
Some of you may have erroneously received many duplicate emails from the Yale Daily News in the past few minutes. It was a result of server testing we were conducting to improve our headlines email service, and it went awry. I want to apologize for the error, and assure you that we are [...]
By: Robert Baskin (Online Director)
Last summer, I interned at Yahoo as Backend Engineer for Yahoo News, which was a fantastic experience. While I was there, Yahoo released a product called YSlow, which is a plug-in for Firebug — the most useful Firefox extension ever created. It analyzes Web pages, tells you why they’re slow and how to make them [...]
