Out of the three acronyms in the title, I guess you are most familiar with URL. Some of you may have heard the other two being thrown around here and there. These acronyms are basically related to the internet. To be specific, they are related to accessing stuff on the internet. What is the purpose of … Continue reading URL vs URI vs URN
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What Is Fuzzy Matching?
This is a continuation of the previous blog post on fuzzy search. We use fuzzy matching algorithms in fuzzy search to come up with the search results. The strength of a fuzzy search algorithm heavily depends on the strength of the fuzzy matching algorithm that is being used. The concept of matching refers to an … Continue reading What Is Fuzzy Matching?
What Is Fuzzy Search?
The word "fuzzy" means something that is indistinct or vague, something that cannot be explained precisely. We all know what "search" means. That should give you a hint of what this blog post is about. Whenever you type something into the Google search engine, you will see that it always returns good results, even when … Continue reading What Is Fuzzy Search?
Adding Hacker News Button To Your WordPress Blog
Every blogger writing about technology or any related field knows how important Hacker News is for promoting good articles. If your article reaches the front page there, it will have a stronger effect as compared to more general sharing sites like Reddit, Digg and StumbleUpon. Hacker News junta is more tech-oriented, and so their opinion … Continue reading Adding Hacker News Button To Your WordPress Blog
DNS Cache Poisoning
Internet entities are regularly affected by Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) of various scales. This is basically a way to hack into an entity and stop it from working. Hackers use it all the time to bring down famous sites. They tend to attack the domain name system (DNS), since it allows to infiltrate heavily. … Continue reading DNS Cache Poisoning
Content Delivery Network – Part 2/2
In the previous post, we discussed about content delivery network (CDN) and why we need it. This post is a continuation of that topic. Here, we will discuss about the pros and cons of using CDN. CDN obviously helps the sites that experience heavy traffic. Most of the times, you will think that just using … Continue reading Content Delivery Network – Part 2/2
Content Delivery Network – Part 1/2
Internet users today are demanding faster and higher-quality services from their media hosting companies. Being an internet user yourself, you should know that we place a high demand on these services. This is the reason quick access and delivery of rich-media like music, photos, videos etc has become a top priority. Wait a minute, why … Continue reading Content Delivery Network – Part 1/2
Why Do We Need Stress Testing?
This is the third and the last blog post in this three-part series. If you want, you can read the first and second posts. In these previous posts, we discussed load testing and performance testing. With load testing, we can see how the system behaves when there is too much load. With performance testing, we … Continue reading Why Do We Need Stress Testing?
Why Do We Need Performance Testing?
This blog post is the second one in this three-part series. If you want, you can read the first and third parts as well. In the previous blog post, we discussed about load testing and how it is useful in determining the behavior of a given system. Load testing is actually a part of the bigger … Continue reading Why Do We Need Performance Testing?
Why Do We Need Load Testing?
This blog post is the first one in a three-part series. If you want, you can read the second and third parts as well. Let's say you are building a website that allows users to create an account, upload photos and browse around. So you will go ahead and define the functionality, design the interface, … Continue reading Why Do We Need Load Testing?
Perpetual Enigma 