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When you are doing a hosting benchmark there are thousand common parameters all providers suggest to compete against others (size, bandwidth, #databases… ). The main secret of the providers is the speed. All providers hide this information: CPU speed and number of people hosted on the same server. These 2 parameters can vary, so at … Read more
Time response continues causing me headaches, but I’m discovering causes and differentiating the causes, so I’m progressing in the right direction. The situation now is that pictures are compressed and with a light weight, no code faults, reduced CSS and JS files, CDN activated, cache, etc. It depends on the pictures of the main screen … Read more
After reading Liar’s Poker, I was in NYC bookstore and I couldn’t resist to buy this book. I’m not an expert on the field, even I do not consider myself an amateur, just a surprised citizen that was around. I knew what was HFT, the importance of latency, that the market volume was high for … Read more
This is the summary, I had to disable the cache from Prestashop. The cache mechanism from Prestashop is a different thing from the CDN. To avoid confusion, I have activated a CDN and this works fine delivering the static content of the store (images, js, css, etc). The issue is the internal cache system from … Read more
In April I started to take care of the time response of the WordPress blog. After adding wp-cache, CDN, and check the quality of the code, the results are: 1.- Yslow grade = A, overall performance score = 96 2.- Load Impact: it’s not perfect, but goes from 7.5s to 5s average, and only 2 … Read more
When you look for a Web hosting you will see there are so many features that are clear, for instance: We offer unlimited memory size. We offer unlimited band width etc. But rarely they will mention the CPU assigned to your virtual and shared environment and the way the CPU is assigned to it. Ask … Read more
Look into internet a report from Gartner and Cast Software named “How to Monetize Application Technical Debt”. They expose a simplified formula for the measure on the individual of a given application based in the number of violations per thousands of lines of code (violations per KLOC). The formula proposed for Technical Debt is: L … Read more
I’m working on a logistics transformation, and it is letting me know the situation of the market with respect the logistics business, where all come from and where all go… Nowadays so many companies outsource part of the processes, typically IT and keep the management activities inside the company. The main question done before to … Read more
In the organizations, the succession plans are not always planned and there are so many funny situations when a person needs to replace someone. The option basically can be that you assign a top performer person who will lead and execute the work in an extraordinary way; or your option is to assign someone who … Read more
Business Applications are the primary mechanism for delivering IT value. Applications are expensive to purchase, but even more expensive to maintain. You have strategic plans, balance sheets, portfolio management cycles…and budget reviews. Application TCO is one of the recognized mechanisms to manage the IT budget, and it’s also one of the major headaches for CIOs … Read more