HTTP Sessions - Binary Sludge

HTTP Sessions

A collection of 3 posts

High Performance Browser Networking

Google web performance engineer Ilya Grigorik has put together the definitive tome on bleeding-edge, high speed web apps. The book is packed with information on performance optimization best practices for TCP, UDP, and TLS protocols, and explains unique wireless and mobile network optimization requirements: How prepared are you to

YouTube's "500 Internal Server Error" Page

I received an HTTP 500 response from YouTube today after submitting a search for Shlomo (an excellent beatboxer and human voice percussionist) and received the cryptic error mesage below. It looks like potentially sensitive debug data have been serialised and encrypted into the error page, but it's not

Redundant and Fault Tolerant PHP Session Storage

As a new PHP application grows from a single server the database is usually the bottleneck. When the original server begins to struggle the database is moved to a dedicated machine or two and perhaps read-only slaves are added (this may require some application code changes - MySQL Proxy offers