Tag Archives: optimization

Faster online and offline image for IMAGE-ONLY users

Some of our users are in environments where they can’t embed the hab.la javascript directly onto their websites. As a workaround we developed a method of showing an image that displays hab.la status on their websites. A few days ago, … Continue reading

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As lighttpd as a feather as quick as a wink

Ok, that title was pretty lame. I digress. Here’s the news: we’ve migrated hab.la’s front end proxy servers on to lighttpd so now we have joined the in crowd for web2.0 applications (delicious .. anyone who does ruby …etc ). … Continue reading

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Oh yeah .. speed holes!

Way, way Back In The Day, I got a big kick out of optimizing my code. I would write entire programs in assembly language, then spend hours sweating about cache lines and pipeline stalls in order to shave a few … Continue reading

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