Brian Parsons

Great slides with awesome tips from a talk given at Sunshine PHP. Implementation case studies, when to use redis and not as well as a comparison between phpredis and predis.

Link: Redis Everywhere

Arch Linux EC2 AMIs have been updated. This release includes a patch for CVE-2014-0038. If you are using these images you should upgrade to the latest kernel (LTS or mainstream).

Really great points and techniques that anyone running a web service with a sign-up process should look at and learn from.

Link: Onboarding New Users Is Harder Than You Think

All these stats talk about possible peaks. The valleys are what you need to look at when it comes to cloud performance. It is not about how fast it can go as much as how slow it might be. 1000 IOPS is great but if it occasionally drops to 15 that's a problem. Amazon is slower but more consistent, and that is something that you can plan around. I look forward to benchmarking these Rackspace offerings on my own to see how they compare.

Link: Rackspace Launches Performance Cloud Servers

Looks neat. PHP esque + python string manipulation model is very tempting. My personal blog uses Mako which is embedded-python templates.

Link: The Slash Programming Language