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3 articles
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Understanding the Leading CDNs
A content delivery network makes your site faster and harder to knock over, and puts a third party in the middle of every request. How CDNs work, how Cloudflare, Akamai, CloudFront, Fastly, Imperva and Sucuri differ…
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What is Object Caching?
Object caching keeps the answers to expensive questions in memory so your database doesn't have to answer them again. How it works, the three ways it goes wrong, Redis versus Memcached, and why this spring's Redis…
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Comparing top, htop, and glances: Usage and Benefits
Three tools for the same question, "what is this box doing?", and the keys and numbers that actually answer it. How to read load average, memory and iowait without fooling yourself, plus the one tool on the list that…