Tag Archives: Performance

Mongo Performance (And Why RAM Is Awesome!)

Posted on December 16, 2010 by Tim Rosenblatt

Chris was doing some rough benchmarking on Mongo for a project and we noticed some interesting trends in the data that are worth sharing. This is all super rough data, but the goal here is to show performance numbers from a quick benchmark, the importance of indices in Mongo, and the value of RAM. While a statistics geek would throw a fit — and would provide their own numbers and analysis rather than just complaining in the comments ;) — you look like a cool person. By the way, that’s a really great shirt you’ve got on!

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Javascript Widget Performance

Posted on February 19, 2010 by Todd Sampson

I received the following question today from Rustin over at The Blog Frog, a cool community service for mommy bloggers:

Like MBL, we use external javascript that is referenced from the blog. If our site ever goes down, even for 2 minutes, browsers try to load the javascript and pause for 30 seconds. Publishers then get upset that we are blocking their blog and take us off. How did you get around this with MBL? How did you display real-time data (when user visits their picture immediately shows up), but decouple from the database (which I assume was necessary)?

Since we have been asked this question more times than I can count, I figured it was time to post a quick response on the blog so anyone who is interested could benefit…

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