Wow!� I can�t believe 2013 is coming.� It seriously feels just the other day when I sat down and wrote my 2011 year in review�
Thinking back, 2012 is probably a more average year.� I don�t feel like anything new and major really happened in the industry that I was a part of.� However, in my personal life, I welcomed my third child in late October � hence the lack of website updates since I�ve been extremely busy with my growing family.
I guess the biggest accomplishment of this past year is two-fold, I�ve officially switched to a dedicated server hosting with Amazon EC2 and secondly, I�ve made the switch from good ol� faithful Apache to the new up and coming Nginx (pronounced Engine-X).
This change has provided a significant increase on my sites overall speed, plus I removed WordPress from the front-end and implemented a friend�s framework leveraging SlimPHP and static files.� I�m still being a bit lazy and have yet to move all of my sites to this framework�which causes my server to have up-and-down load times due to the heavy lifting WordPress invokes on the server.
Since moving to a dedicated server, increasing my main sites performance, performance in itself has been quite important to me.� I�ve written several articles on load testing mysql, wrote a speed comparison tool to use with any performance-related articles.
Finally, to wrap up the last quarter of 2012, I�ve spent some time learning Node.js.� I also had the privilege to be the technical reviewer of my former co-workers book: Building Node Applications with MongoDB and Backbone which will be available real soon.
On to 2013 � now that we have survived yet another dooms day day - one thing that I will be striving for this year is to hopefully compare AJAX to make sites highly dynamic and interactive against Node.js� IO socket connection.
AJAX has been used successfully for many years and is easy to scale horizontally by adding new web servers.� However, I don�t know how it compares to Node.js� IO socket connection.� It doesn�t seem like it will scale horizontally as easily because given that it is a socket, it�s stateful versus a webserver that we always attempt to make stateless�
I hope to have those results, unless someone else already has them? Published on Dec 21, 2012 Tags: Theory
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