A large number of applications today have some kind of a notification mechanism built-in. More often than not, an email is used to send these notifications. Typically, while developing these applications, developers use their own inbox to send notifications to. Or they setup some dummy account to send test emails to; or sometimes they might send test mails to real users (it’s been known to happen). Continued »

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Computer chip manufacturers cannot keep on increasing the clock speed indefinitely to make their processors faster. They seem to have already reached the limit (on clock speed) and have started putting multiple Continued »

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One of the challenges of scaling out applications through server farms is the need to share memory artifacts (session and cache). There are of course many techniques which can be employed. As always, looking around the Internet Continued »

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