January 2011
4 posts
Free Website Load Testing
UPDATE (September 14, 2011): This site is no longer an EnkiBlog but hosted on tumblr.
Load Impact is a freemium web service for stress testing websites.
The free test gets you a test suite of 10, 20, 30, 40, and 50 concurrent
clients with an average user load time for each. Going up to the paid
service yields some cool features like viewing individual objects, more
states, higher load testing,...
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DuckDuckGo has replaced Google as my default...
If you haven’t tried the new web search engine DuckDuckGo, you should. I never thought I’d say it, but it actually has replaced Google as my default search engine.
Replaced Google? How?
Literally? Just go to DuckDuckGo and click the “Add to Whatever Browser You Are Using” link. Google doesn’t have to be ubiquitous!
Replaced Google? Why?
At first I just decided...
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mongodb: units in db.printCollectionStats()
This took far, far too long to find. Seriously. I was even digging into the source code.
The avgObjSize (and other data fields in the stats) returns the size in bytes.
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Dynamically loading thousands of markers in Google...
UPDATE (September 17, 2011): If you want to effectively handle many thousands of points in a Google Map then the only real solution is using Google Fusion Tables. I hit on that as a solution a few months ago and it’s been working perfectly for The Broadband Map and it’s over 400,000 loadable points. Blog post with details coming soon.
When you’re making a Google Map with more than...