Monthly Archives: July 2008

Internally Caching Longer Than Externally Caching

Wednesday, July 16th, 2008

We use varnish for a lot of our file caching needs, and recently we figured out how to do something rather important through a combination of technologies. Imagine you have backend servers generating dynamic content based on user input. So your users do something that fits the following categories: is expensive to generate dynamically, and [...]

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Command line arguments in bash scripts

Monday, July 7th, 2008

This is something that has always annoyed me about bash scripts… The fact that it’s difficult to run /path/to/script.sh –foo=bar -v -n 10 blah -one=’last arg’ So I decided to write up a bash function that let me easily (once the function was complete) access this type of information. And because I like sharing, here [...]

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