An example on how to replace Grails views gsp and controllers by Angular FrameworkAngular being more and more popular I decided to try using it for one of my new projects. As I’m starting to learn Angular, I followed the excellent tutorial on the Angular website http://docs.angularjs.org/tutorial. In this tutorial there is no particular backend, …
Cyclic Garbage Collection Enter something called a cyclic garbage collector.Basically, this is a function which will try to detect those circular references. We call it cyclic, because it’s generalized to not just handle circular references, but handle any kind of Cycle. So how does it work? Collecting Cycles I’m going to describe this backwards. I’m …
Over the past five years or so, NoSQL databases have enjoyed a spike in popularity compared to relational i.e., SQL-driven databases, thanks in large part to industries such as online gaming. A typical NoSQL database can write data 10 or 20 times faster than a relational one, although this speed comes at a price: The …
Looking for a nice little burst of nostalgia on this fine Saturday evening? Don’t feel like going through the process of installing MAME and lurking for ROMs, but still want to get your classic arcade on? Back in December of last year, the Internet Archive (in their effort to backup the entire digital world, one …
In the past I have reviewed MakuLinux MATE Edition, which came with a very polished and beautiful interface, but also bundled in the ISO a big number of applications to be installed. At the time the MATE edition made a very good impression on me, so I kept a close eye on the development of …
If there’s one thing Lian-Li is good at, it’s making very pretty cases entirely out of aluminum. The company’s latest number is no exception, although we don’t entirely see why a NAS enclosure has to look so good. Despite the lavish form, the PC-Q26 also has function to back it up, so it’s not a …
Earlier this year, we made a decision to run every task on IronWorker inside its own Docker container. Since then, we’ve run over 300,000,000 programs inside of their own private Docker containers on cloud infrastructure. via Iron.io Blog: Docker in Production — What We’ve Learned Launching Over 300 Million Containers.
How HipChat Stores and Indexes Billions of Messages Using ElasticSearch and Redis – High Scalability –.
I decided to take a break from my love affair with Apache and set up a recent development project on Nginx. I’ve seen nothing but good things in terms of speed and performance from Nginx. I decided to set up a LEMP server (Linux, Nginx, MySQL, PHP), minus the MySQL as it’s already installed on …
I created this HOWTO while building a new development environment today. The intention is to take a single Apache2/Varnish/MySQL environment and scale it to two servers, with one effectively a “hot-standby” – increase redundancy and continuity whilst maintaining current performance. This HOWTO is based on Linux Debian-76-wheezy-64-minimal 3.2.0-4-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 3.2.60-1+deb7u3 x86_64 via MySQL …