Disco + EC2 spot instance = WIN 30 Oct 2012 | 05:13 pm

tl;dr version : This is how I spent a Saturday evening. Warning: If you like to write Java, stop reading now. Go back to using Hadoop. It’s a much more mature project. As a part of my job, I do a lot ...

4 reasons why I love my ISP 29 Nov 2011 | 08:52 am

I’ve been using True ADSL for years, and I absolutely love their service (and especially the transparent proxy). Here are some of the reasons why :- Censorship Protecting me from bad stuff – Interweb...

DFP now officially supports asynchronous rendering! 28 Oct 2011 | 12:29 am

Yesterday, DFP launched asynchronous ad loading. For the past few months ive been trying to load ads in a manner where it doesn’t affect rest of the page load, this new development is like a dream com...

Check if you are behind a transparent proxy 12 Oct 2011 | 07:38 am

Many Asian ISPs do not provide clean internet. They route all HTTP sessions thru a transparent proxy. Here is a simple way to check if you are behind one. My ping time to CDN Planet is 312ms, but th...

Evaluating few CDN options 11 Jun 2011 | 09:10 am

Recently, I was evaluating CDN options for a client with some unique challenges. We ended up using Amazon CloudFront, but ill detail the options we looked at and what let us to this decision. Some th...

Attention skeptics: Web Performance Optimization works! 15 May 2011 | 02:39 am

Today, I was looking into web performance issues for a new client who wishes to remain anonymous and saw an interesting example of value provided by improving performance. One of the first things I d...

Dear Google: W-W-W-WHY Y-YOU DO DAT? 13 Mar 2011 | 07:01 am

Complete Asynchronous ad loading using DFP and LABjs 3 Mar 2011 | 07:43 am

UPDATE: The hack is now available on GitHub. 8th May 2011: This seems to be having problems, will investigate and update when i have time. Pls revert to normal DFP tags for now. One of the biggest c...

Internet connectivity in Myanmar (Burma) 21 Feb 2011 | 10:21 pm

Last weekend ( Feb 19th & 20th) I was in Yangon for BarCamp Yangon. It probably had an attendance of > 4k participants… Probably one of the largest BarCamps ever, despite the fact that the internet c...

DreamHost: Best customer service ever! 13 Jan 2011 | 06:46 am

Please wait for a site operator to respond. You are now chatting with ‘Brandon’ Brandon: Hi, how may I help you? sajal: hi this is a clients account where im supposed to setup the VPS. its been alm...