Archive for April, 2011

Packing in the inodes

Wednesday, April 13th, 2011

The new forecast server I’m working on for Seasonality users is using the filesystem heirarchy as a form of database instead of PostgreSQL.  This will slow down the forecast generation code a bit, because I’m writing a ton of small files instead of letting Postgres optimize disk I/O.  However, reading from the database will be [...]

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Office Network Updates

Thursday, April 7th, 2011

Over the past several weeks, I’ve been spending a lot of time working on server-side changes. There are two main server tasks that I’ve been focusing on. The first task is a new weather forecast server for Seasonality users. I’ll talk more about this in a later post. The second task [...]

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