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Tuesday, August 12. 2008

The definition of evil

Recently a colleague stated that in theory, caching could be considered 'evil'.

Now 'evil' is a very broad term which is used a lot in the IT community, but what does it really mean when we're talking about technical solutions?

I asked around, but couldn't find a clear cut definition, so I went searching...

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Posted by Boy Baukema --> at 16:11 | Comment (1) | Trackbacks (0)

Defined tags for this entry: best practices, browser, caching, development, evil, optimization, performance, scalability

Tuesday, April 15. 2008

PFCongrez 2008

Saturday the 12th of April a delegation of 8 Ibuildings employees attended the 3rd PFCongrez event in Maarssen, NL. This yearly event is initiated by an association surrounding the popular Dutch website PHPFreakz.nl. As always, conferences like these provide an excellent opportunity to put some faces with the names you got to know over resource websites or IRC.

A comfortable train trip brought us to Utrecht, from where we got on the bus to the location where the conference was held. Some introducing and handshaking later we sat down on some not-too-comfortable chairs, anxiously awaiting the line-up for the day.

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Posted by Ruud Alberts --> at 13:47 | Comment (1) | Trackbacks (0)

Defined tags for this entry: conference, javascript, marktplaats, pfcongrez, pfcongrez2008, phpfreakz, ppk, scalability, symfony, webstandaarden

Monday, March 17. 2008

How we build scalable web applications

There is lots of information available on how to build scalable web applications. I thought it would be nice to share a little bit of how we at Ibuildings build scalable web applications.

Often we're dealing with large applications that need to scale very well. Sometimes this is due to high load/traffic but, it can also be that the web application is used in many ways. For example an application can have a heavily used CRM like back-end system. The front-end website uses the same system to publish information from it. You can imagine that if you didn't set it up correctly and the load increases on the back-end, it affects the website users and vice versa.

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Posted by Martin Roest --> at 13:54 | Comments (3) | Trackback (1)

Defined tags for this entry: architecture, caching, performance, scalability, soa, zend platform

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