Monthly Archives: January 2011
HTTP KeepAlive Considered Harmful
Isn’t that a wonderfully alarmist title? A better one would be “HTTP KeepAlive harmful for modern high-traffic low-latency low-footprint websites”. But then you’d have fallen asleep by now, wouldn’t you. This was written to expand on an idea I touched … Continue reading
“Open” UK Rail Data: Media Coverage & Broken Appeals Process
Since my last piece on the saga of National Rail Enquiries shutting off public access to their data feed the problem has gained coverage in the Guardian and elsewhere in the press. On Thursday I went on Radio 4′s You … Continue reading
Awful Recruiter of the Year: Nick Blake of “Technical Identity”
I originally posted an entry about a particularly obnoxious IT recruiter on LiveJournal in July 2009. Sometime in the last couple of months it’s been suspended by them for reasons unknown. Here’s the entry in full…
How to Survive a Slashdotting on a Small Apache Server
…so your plain ordinary webserver just got listed on a high-traffic news site. Slashdot? Reddit? Hacker News? Well done, turns out you’re hosting something thousands of people want to read. Now thousands of people want to come to your webserver … Continue reading