High Performance With Netty and Aerospike
How replacing Jetty with Netty and using Aerospike helped a Java application reach 40,000 requests per second with 4ms average response times.
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Tutorial: Create a HTML scraper with PhantomJS and PHP
A tutorial on using PhantomJS and PHP to scrape HTML table data, convert the output to SimpleXmlElement, and iterate through state populations.
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Learn how to use Canvas compositing and source-in with drawImage to extract nonrectangular image areas defined by a mask.
Read the postThoughts and Suggestions on Airline Communication
Suggestions for improving airline customer relations through documented communications, live chat, accountability, callbacks, and more consistent service.
Read the postFun: Sending Valentines day cards with lob.com
How a lightweight Silex application used Lob's API, postcard templates, address details, and HTML5 Canvas animation to send Valentine's Day cards.
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