We provide consultancy, PHP web development and support for web applications and ecommerce sites in the UK. Our expert knowledge focuses on application development, performance and infrastructure needs.Tumblr (3.0; @ukd1)http://blog.ukd1.co.uk/<a href="http://t.co/bKoT11GT">@emson: @Basho have just announced #RiakCS - simple, available, #distributed #cloud #storage at any scale - #AWS #S3 compliant http://t.co/bKoT11GT</a>http://blog.ukd1.co.uk/post/20013142966http://blog.ukd1.co.uk/post/20013142966Tue, 27 Mar 2012 18:00:18 +0100twitter favorite<a href="http://googleappengine.blogspot.com/2012/01/happy-birthday-high-replication.html">3b / req / day + 100k apps * 1 year = 0% downtime #wow</a>http://blog.ukd1.co.uk/post/15822746750http://blog.ukd1.co.uk/post/15822746750Sat, 14 Jan 2012 11:30:05 +0000googleappengine<a href="http://www.thismanslife.co.uk/projects/lab/responsiveillustration/">Sweet visual demo of responsive design</a>http://blog.ukd1.co.uk/post/15770993612http://blog.ukd1.co.uk/post/15770993612Fri, 13 Jan 2012 11:30:05 +0000<a href="http://bartaz.github.com/impress.js/#/bored">Impress.js: An awesome JS animation library for Presentations</a>http://blog.ukd1.co.uk/post/15718912156http://blog.ukd1.co.uk/post/15718912156Thu, 12 Jan 2012 11:30:06 +0000javascript<a href="http://blog.pythonisito.com/2011/12/mongodbs-write-lock.html">MongoDB: Graphs of write-lock</a>http://blog.ukd1.co.uk/post/15666999387http://blog.ukd1.co.uk/post/15666999387Wed, 11 Jan 2012 11:30:05 +0000mongodb<a href="https://github.com/mattmatt/riaktivity">Riak examples: User timelines</a>: <p>Mattmatt on github has released some sample code to store timelines in Riak with Ruby. A work in progress, but interesting none the less.</p>http://blog.ukd1.co.uk/post/15615421002http://blog.ukd1.co.uk/post/15615421002Tue, 10 Jan 2012 11:30:05 +0000riakexamplesruby<a href="http://t.co/7st6B8NF">@igrigorik: LatencyTOP looks like a *really* handy performance forensics tool: http://t.co/7st6B8NF - only gotcha, kernel patches..</a>http://blog.ukd1.co.uk/post/15612600450http://blog.ukd1.co.uk/post/15612600450Tue, 10 Jan 2012 08:14:38 +0000twitter favorite<a href="http://t.co/vFunCTEr">@Federico_II: Rackspace opensources continuous deployment tooling: Dreadnot http://t.co/vFunCTEr #F/OSS</a>http://blog.ukd1.co.uk/post/15612600580http://blog.ukd1.co.uk/post/15612600580Tue, 10 Jan 2012 08:14:38 +0000twitter favorite<a href="http://shlomoswidler.com/2009/07/elastic-in-elastic-load-balancing-elb.html">Testing AWS Elastic Load Balancers</a>http://blog.ukd1.co.uk/post/15562826273http://blog.ukd1.co.uk/post/15562826273Mon, 09 Jan 2012 11:30:05 +0000elbaws<a href="http://kristianlyng.wordpress.com/2011/12/01/varnish-training/">Varnish Training</a>http://blog.ukd1.co.uk/post/15505166436http://blog.ukd1.co.uk/post/15505166436Sun, 08 Jan 2012 11:30:06 +0000varnishtraining<a href="http://graylog2.org/ohai/0.9.6">Graylog2: Dropping MongoDB…picking up ElasticSearch</a>http://blog.ukd1.co.uk/post/15447867440http://blog.ukd1.co.uk/post/15447867440Sat, 07 Jan 2012 11:30:06 +0000mongodbelasticsearchgraylog2<a href="http://datasyndrome.com/post/14631249157/mongodb-is-web-scale-hadoop-mongodb">MongoDB is web-scale</a>: <p>MongoDB is Web Scale. Lulz, right? Turns out, Mongo is the first NoSQL to nail painless Hadoop and Pig integration…thus becoming the first ‘web scale’ database.</p>http://blog.ukd1.co.uk/post/15394841580http://blog.ukd1.co.uk/post/15394841580Fri, 06 Jan 2012 11:30:05 +0000mongodbhadoop<a href="http://www.infoq.com/presentations/JVM-Performance-Tuning-twitter">JVM Performance Tuning - Everything I ever learned</a>http://blog.ukd1.co.uk/post/15341859043http://blog.ukd1.co.uk/post/15341859043Thu, 05 Jan 2012 11:31:05 +0000<a href="http://www.designbyfront.com/demo/goldilocks-approach/">EM's for Fluid Designs</a>http://blog.ukd1.co.uk/post/15291256991http://blog.ukd1.co.uk/post/15291256991Wed, 04 Jan 2012 11:20:05 +0000design<script src="https://gist.github.com/1373225.js?file=updateChromium.sh"></script><p>Keep up to date with the latest Chromium builds on your Mac!</p>http://blog.ukd1.co.uk/post/12924913960http://blog.ukd1.co.uk/post/12924913960Thu, 17 Nov 2011 14:16:10 +0000chromechromiummac<p>pv or pipe viewer allows you to monitor the progress of data going through a pipe…really handy if you want, for instance, to monitor how far through a restore of a mysql backup is going amongst other things.</p> <p>You should be able to install it with aptitude quite easily, though you may have to enable multiverse.</p> <p>After you&#8217;ve done that, it&#8217;s super easy:</p> <pre><code>pv yourmysqlbackup.sql | mysql -u &lt;user&gt; -p&lt;password&gt; </code></pre>http://blog.ukd1.co.uk/post/12282012830http://blog.ukd1.co.uk/post/12282012830Thu, 03 Nov 2011 12:35:22 +0000<a href="http://twitter.com/agomey28/status/127292535784751104">@agomey28: Money never sleeps why should I? Rise and grind bitch!!!</a>http://blog.ukd1.co.uk/post/12076969014http://blog.ukd1.co.uk/post/12076969014Sat, 29 Oct 2011 17:29:22 +0100twitter favorite<iframe width="400" height="300" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/Qi_AAqi0RZM?wmode=transparent&autohide=1&egm=0&hd=1&iv_load_policy=3&modestbranding=1&rel=0&showinfo=0&showsearch=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><br/><br/>http://blog.ukd1.co.uk/post/11017673677http://blog.ukd1.co.uk/post/11017673677Tue, 04 Oct 2011 12:02:05 +0100brogramming<a href="http://www.rethinkdb.com/performance/">RethinkDB : Performance</a>: <p>See how RethinkDB performs under a number of different workloads.</p>http://blog.ukd1.co.uk/post/10979172732http://blog.ukd1.co.uk/post/10979172732Mon, 03 Oct 2011 14:41:06 +0100rethinkdbperformance<a href="http://www.rethinkdb.com/">RethinkDB</a>: <p>A memcached compatible persistent & fast (~1 millions tps on commodity hardware) store.</p>http://blog.ukd1.co.uk/post/10976647362http://blog.ukd1.co.uk/post/10976647362Mon, 03 Oct 2011 11:56:05 +0100rethinkdbmemcache