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Brandon Wamboldt
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Basics Of Scaling: Cache Everything

Posted on February 10, 2015August 18, 2015by Brandon Wamboldt

I do a lot of work on websites that needs to scale fairly well, but I tend to use that mentality for every project. Part of scaling is performance, and the better your app performs (e.g. the more requests per second it can handle) the cheaper it is. One very easy way to improve your […]

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Basics Of Scaling: Load Balancers

Posted on April 10, 2014August 18, 2015by Brandon Wamboldt

Lately, I’ve been doing a lot of work on systems that require a high degree of scalability to handle large traffic spikes. This has led to a lot of questions from friends and colleagues on scaling, so I thought I’d do a blog series on the basics of scaling .

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Why you should be using CloudFlare

Posted on September 27, 2013April 28, 2014by Brandon Wamboldt

Have you heard of CloudFlare? If not, you should definitely check it out. It’s a content delivery network (CDN), uses by millions of websites, and best of all: it has a free plan! A CDN can significantly speed up your website. Let’s say your site is hosted on a server sitting in Montreal (like mine). If […]

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I'm a team lead, software developer, and devops engineer (depending on the day). I love programming, and having a blog allows me to share things I've learned with others, and hopefully save somebody a bit of time!

Disclaimer: Any opinions expressed are solely my own and do not express the views or opinions of my employer.

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