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Caching Improvements

Wednesday, November 11th, 2009

We are continuing our caching discussions from the past few weeks : 7 Approved Caching Technologies Caching Strategies Our goal in the previous few weeks has been to identify caching strategies and technologies. We have now used this knowledge to identify where to invest our focus on improvements. Our conclusion is to go ...

VG Meta

Sunday, March 15th, 2009

Our good friends at VG Nett (VG Nett is a customer of ours, and the largest online media in Norway) just started their own blog - "VG Meta". The blog is their channel for sharing what they do and how they do it. We look forward to follow their posts. Have ...

Coffee Consumption Graph (CCG)

Friday, March 6th, 2009

We're no better then the rest. We drink loads of coffee, and we like it. We even measure consumption, cup by cup, and brag about it on our blog. (Bookmark this page, the graph updates during the day!) During the weekends the graph is normally flat, so check back in during weekdays. ...

Happy Birthday Rick Astley!

Friday, February 6th, 2009

February 6th is an important day. More precisely, it is the birthday of Rick Astley. We wanted to honor Rick on his special day, so we rasterbated him up on our office wall. If you drop by to celebrate with us we'll hook you up with a beautiful song and a ...

Live streaming the Christmas Party @ Aptoma

Friday, December 12th, 2008

We're having a Christmas party today, and we're having it in our office. We figure that the only thing sadder than having the Christmas party at the office, would be to provide a live-stream from the party itself. So that's what we are were doing. We're even changing our home-page to reflect ...

MySQL – Configuration, query cache and other thingamajigs (part 2 of 2)

Tuesday, July 1st, 2008

This is the third post in a short series about MySQL. Read the first here, and the second here. This one covers this and that and has no set topic. The post is quite long, so I've split it in two (read the first part here). This also hopefully make ...

MySQL – Configuration, query cache and other thingamajigs (part 1 of 2)

Friday, June 27th, 2008

This is the third post in a short series about MySQL. Read the first here, and the second here. This one covers this and that and has no set topic. The post is a bit long, so I've split it in two. The next part will be released next week. ...

MySQL Indexes — to MySQL what green kryptonite is to Smallville universe Bizarro

Thursday, June 26th, 2008

This is the second post in a short series about MySQL and the first is located here. Today's post stars indexes, those furry little creatures native to the forest moon of Endor. Indexes are essential for fast and effective conditional queries and you should always use them. If you can afford ...

MySQL – What Engine to Use AKA ‘in retrospect my first mistake’

Friday, June 13th, 2008

This is the first post in a short series on MySQL. In the end of this post I will try to list as many sources as I can remember to who and what told me these lies. Most of this will be copy-paste from our sekrit wiki and requires some ...

A-hoy! We’re a-bloggin’

Thursday, June 5th, 2008

We're hereby entering the blog-sphere. We're late, but now we're here. What you're probably thinking right now, is "who in the world is Aptoma?" I'll provide a short answer to that reasonably fair question; Aptoma is a small web-development company situated in Oslo, Norway. We're something like the Arctic Programmers (which ...