Thursday, 4 May 2006

How I Learned to Love Cache

Simpy just got 27 new servers! Heh, no, not really. I wish! Instead of new hardware, the existing one was tuned a little to improve performance. Has anyone other than my mom noticed it??? To the faithful Simpy users - thank you for dealing with the recent sluggish performance and sticking around! While May 1st is a Labour Day (typically converted into a full week) in some countries, I couldn't rest until I took care of the sudden unbearable slowness of .... serving pages, bookmarks, tags, and other goods. The following chart illustrates what I accomplished that day (or was it night?).
What the chart depicts is the sudden drop in the server load on one of Simpy's serviers, as the result of my fixes. The X axis represents time (more recent to the right), and the Y axis represents server load.
Finally, two serious questions:
  1. Has anyone noticed the improved performance? (I only get "love letters" when things are slow)
  2. Are any other pages still loading slowly for you? Let me know which ones!
Posted by otis at 2:20 AM in News & Announcements
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God Does Simpy

You won't believe it, but god does use Simpy. Sceptical? Don't believe me? Have a look for yourself:
And god is not alone here! Jesus is here, too, but he doesn't seem to want to share his links, although he's a pretty active user!
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Saving Google Search Results

One of the handy Firefox extensions I've had for years is Customize Google. The extension has numerous options, from hiding AdWords on Google's search results, adding links to alternative search engines on Google's SERPs, to allowing you to save individual links from Google's SERP directly into your Simpy account, like this:
How do you make that happen? Here is a screenshot that shows how to configure Customize Google to add that "Save" link for bookmarking directly from Google's SERPs:
Give Customize Google a try (it uninstalls just as easy as any other Firefox extension), it's quite versatile and powerful.
Posted by otis at 1:22 AM in News & Announcements
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