Optimising your LAMP stack for performance

By default, the standard LAMP (Linux Apache Mysql Php/Perl/Python) stack doesn’t come particularly well optimised for handling more than a trivial amount of load. For most people this isn’t a problem, either they’re running on a large enough server or their traffic is at a level that they never hit against the limits. Anyway, I’ve […]

Marcus Povey

By default, the standard LAMP (Linux Apache Mysql Php/Perl/Python) stack doesn’t come particularly well optimised for handling more than a trivial amount of load. For most people this isn’t a problem, either they’re running on a large enough server or their traffic is at a level that they never hit against the limits. Anyway, I’ve […]

Building the NPPL Pilot logbook: Idea to launch

Those of you who know me from my work on Elgg or building the platform powering Latakoo are possibly not aware that I also write application software. Not as much as I’d like, the lure of web services and the long tail is seductive, but while web services solve some problems they create others. In […]

Marcus Povey

Those of you who know me from my work on Elgg or building the platform powering Latakoo are possibly not aware that I also write application software. Not as much as I’d like, the lure of web services and the long tail is seductive, but while web services solve some problems they create others. In […]

National “CC your emails to Theresa May” day tomorrow!

Our economy is officially in the grip of the much feared double dip recession, and since we’re all in it together it is our duty to save the country money wherever we can. We’re in the big society after all! So, since the government’s plan to spy on every UK citizen’s email, IM and phone […]

Marcus Povey

Our economy is officially in the grip of the much feared double dip recession, and since we’re all in it together it is our duty to save the country money wherever we can. We’re in the big society after all! So, since the government’s plan to spy on every UK citizen’s email, IM and phone […]