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Mailinator(tm) Blog: How Mailinator compresses email by 90%
Quite a lot of work for an extra 5% ;)
mailinator  lcs  caching  algorithms  compression  email 
february 2012 by jm
good taxonomy of memcached use cases
via Jeff Barr's announcement of the Elasticache launch. from 2008, but a better taxonomy than I've seen elsewhere
memcached  caching  mysql  performance  scalability  via:jeffbarr 
august 2011 by jm
Improving Linux performance by preserving Buffer Cache State
handy -- a patch to rsync(1) which will not disturb the buffer cache, so that large file transfers and backups will not interfere with what's been cached previously
performance  linux  caching  buffer-cache  rsync  io  cache  patches  backups  from delicious
march 2011 by jm
Blosc
A high-performance compressor optimized for binary data -- 'designed to transmit data to the processor cache faster than a traditional, non-compressed, direct memory fetch via memcpy()' (via Bill de hOra)
via:dehora  compression  memcpy  caching  l1  software  memory  optimization  performance  python  pytables  from delicious
october 2010 by jm
Mike Shroepfer on Engineering at Scale at Facebook
lots of gory details on FB's innards via Dare Obasanjo
facebook  scaling  scalability  erlang  caching  architecture  multifeed  from delicious
october 2009 by jm
Why WeakHashMap Sucks
'SoftReferences are the cheap, crappy caching mechanism [...] perfect for when you'd like your cache to be cleared at random times and in random order.'
softreferences  weakreferences  weak  references  gc  java  jvm  caching  hash  memory  collections  vm  weakhashmap  via:spyced  from delicious
september 2009 by jm

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