Devon Hillard’s Digital Sanctuary
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Home Gym
Since I’m going to get in better shape, I need a gym, and what better place for a gym than my basement. Currently I have a couple of floor mats for crunches, planks, cobras, supermen, etc… a exercise ball for crunches and pushups, a heavy bag, and a erg (rowing machine) on the way. I…
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Additional CDN Information
A few popular commercial CDN services are: Akamai Mirror Image Multicast Media Limelight End user performance is typically increased roughly 20-25% by the addition of a good CDN solution. This does not count the reduced capacity requirements of your server farm, which is an added bonus. Photo by jpctalbot
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Monster.com Security Breach
The Monster.com job board database was illegally accessed and large amounts of user data were stolen. As is the case with many companies that maintain large databases of information, Monster is the target of illegal attempts to access and extract information from its database. We recently learned our database was illegally accessed and certain contact…
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A Brand New Year
photo by Ced Yes, I know it’s 23 days late, but I had a few thoughts about this new year that I wanted to share. I know many feel that annual events like anniversaries, Christmas, and New Years are artificial markers and we should do whatever we would do on those days every day. As…
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Improving ATG Performance With a CDN
Why use a CDN? A Content Delivery Network, or CDN, is essentially a system of geographically distributed web servers which serve static content, typically images, video, and other bandwidth intensive files. This serves two purposes: it keeps your servers from having to handle those requests and it serves those files to the end user from…
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Improving Secondary Asset Loading Time for an ATG Application
Now that we covered improving the performance of serving the HTML from the JSP, we need to tackle the bigger problem of all of the secondary assets and media that the page loads to display correctly. This includes images, Javascript, CSS, Flash, videos, etc… The reason that these secondary page assets are so critical for…
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