Category: Queues
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Performance Diagnostics Part 5- Optimising Worker Threads
Background A few (ok many) years ago I was working with a customer who was launching a new application and was expecting a high load on their launch, which for whatever reason was at 3pm on a Friday (1). As 3pm hit, and the load balancers started directing traffic to the now production system, there…
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Who’s Using My Bandwidth?
One of the questions I hate is “who’s using my bandwidth?!?” and not at all because I was the child consuming and all of the available dial-up (28.8Kbps) bandwidth downloading the latest FreeBSD or Linux distribution image. In fact this was the age of magazines with CDs that contained Mandrake, RedHat, or if I was…