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Monthly Archives: December 2009

Crowdsourcing a real-time solution to air terrorism

Wednesday, December 30, 2009

At 09:28 on the morning of September 11, 2001, a Lebanese born engineering student named Ziad Jarrah and three “muscle” hijackers started moving the passengers of flight 93 to the rear of the plane and assaulting the cockpit of flight 93.  Flights 11 and 175 had already crashed into the world trade center and flight 77 [...]

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How to handle 1000’s of concurrent users on a 360MB VPS

Tuesday, December 1, 2009

There has been some recent confusion about how much memory you need in a web server to handle a huge number of concurrent requests. I also made a performance claim on the STS list that got me an unusual number of private emails.
Here’s how you run a highly concurrent website on a shoe-string budget:
The first [...]

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