Long back Google has reportedthat a 500ms (half a second) delay caused 20% drop in their traffic and Amazon founda 100ms of extra latency dropped their sales by 1%. So in any software application which uses persistent data, introducing a cache is a very common technique to improve the performance by reducing the latency. But… Read More Application Performance Improvement with Cache
Visited Coorg (Kodagu) again, (previous visit) this time with friends. Had a wonderful stay at Heritage Resort. Here are some photos.
A quick evening ride to Vypin island in Cochin after my cousin’s marriage. Cochin is always one my favourite place as I have spent most of my school vacations here with my cousins. I was not carrying my camera and took these pictures with iPhone.
VPC – Virtual Private Cloud – is the virtual network in AWS where you launch your EC2 instances. VPC is a powerful yet easy to use concept. This post gives you a heads up with basic VPC concepts. For more information refer the VPC user guide. You can create a VPC in simple clicks and… Read More AWS Networking (VPC) simplified
The famous Madiwala Market for fresh fruits and vegetables. We don’t go here often, but just stopped by once to check out the market. The vegetables were fresh and cheap too compared to other retail shops and super markets.
SSH using secure key is actually very simple but if you look around web the explanations are sometimes confusing. The concept is simple, similar to our door keys – to get access you should have the key. Similarly SSH Keys are used to connect from one machine to another machine without providing a password. So… Read More SSH Keys
Team outing from office this time to Meenakshi Resort in Jigani. As it was near to Electronic City it was an easy option for me to drive there directly. The resort was an average one with only few activities like mist dance, go-karting, rope climbing etc. But the covered cricket ground was good enough for… Read More Meenakshi Resort
A stylish Mercedes Benz parked near our office. This place is known as Dollars Scheme Layout in BTM and rich people are staying here. In Bangalore any street with the name “Dollars” indicates they are rich 🙂 Audis and BMWs were looking better for last couple of years but now its Merc back again with… Read More Benz
Took this photos from our office terrace. The continuous white light and scattered read light shows free way on one side and heavy traffic in other direction. Interesting thing is that its the same always, be it morning or evening.
I have upgraded Redmine in our office from 1.4 to 2.6.1 recently. The upgrade was not smooth as there were many plug-ins installed in our old version and many of them were not compatible with new version of Redmine. First thing I did was to download a Bitnami Redmine VM from Bitnami website. This made… Read More Redmine upgrade from 1.4 to 2.6.1
Anil G Kurian 