Maximize your concurrent web server connections

For production web servers, most people assume scaling means needing faster (and more expensive) hardware. Before spending more money on…

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Latency of DigitalOcean Spaces vs AWS S3

WakaTime’s infra is split across DigitalOcean and AWS. We use DigitalOcean Droplets for compute resources, AWS S3 to store code stats, and DigitalOcean Spaces for backups. You can find…

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Using a disk-based Redis clone to reduce AWS S3 bill

Redis is an in-memory database with very high write and read speed, and a limitation that data sets can’t be larger…

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How To Write a NetBeans Plugin

Want to add a feature or automate something in your NetBeans IDE? Follow along as we write your first plugin…

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