Sizing Concurrent Users & Connections in a Web Environment

Calculating concurrent connections for new web applications isn’t an exact science. Fortunately Sun published a guide with an overview of the sizing process that can be applied to most web applications. (more…)

Google Tech Talk – A look at Web Security

This is a bit dated (April ’06) but still very much relevant. This video is a tech talk delivered at Google by security expert Mike Andrews. n this TechTalk, Mike Andrews examines how web applications are attacked, walk through a testing framework for evaluating the security of an application and take some deep-dives into a few interesting and common vulnerabilities and how they can be exploited. A good primer for folks interested in Web App Firewalsl.

clustering versus load-balancing

Seems that often times the concept of clustering is often mixed up with that of load-balancing. I thought I’d quickly write something up to help clarify the difference between the two.

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