12/8: Crucial Components to Scaling a Platform

Rye Overly

Scaling a website involves optimizing its performance, capacity, and infrastructure to handle increased traffic, users, and content without compromising speed, reliability, or user experience. Key components to consider when scaling a website include: 1. Infrastructure (Server and Hosting) Load Balancing: Distributes incoming traffic across multiple servers to prevent any single server from becoming overwhelmed. Load […]

12/1: Travel & Hospitality Platforms

Rye Overly

The travel and hospitality industry has undergone a digital transformation, with websites serving as essential platforms for customers to research, book, and plan trips. However, these websites face several unique challenges that can impact user experience, conversions, and overall business success. 1. Intense Competition The online travel market is highly competitive, with global players like […]

11/24: Financial Services Applications

Rye Overly

Financial services applications play a pivotal role in today’s digital economy, enabling individuals and businesses to manage their money, investments, and transactions more efficiently than ever. At their core, these applications are designed to provide easy access to financial tools and services, from managing bank accounts to investing in the stock market. Most financial apps […]

11/17: CDNs & High Traffic Events

Rye Overly

When streaming large live events—whether it’s the Super Bowl, Olympics, or Elections —ensuring smooth, high-quality playback is essential. Content Delivery Networks (CDNs) play a crucial role in this, enabling a seamless viewing experience for global audiences. A CDN is a network of distributed servers designed to deliver content efficiently. For live events, CDNs are vital […]

11/10: Big Data & Machine Learning

Rye Overly

The advent of machine learning (ML) has profoundly transformed the world of big data, ushering in new possibilities for how organizations gather, analyze, and use vast amounts of information. In the past, big data was often seen as a challenge—an overwhelming flood of raw information that was difficult to process and analyze using traditional methods. […]

11/3: Cache Hit Ratios (CHR)

Rye Overly

In the world of computing, efficiency is paramount, and one crucial metric to gauge it is the cache hit ratio. Simply put, the cache hit ratio measures the percentage of cache accesses that result in a hit, meaning the requested data is found in the cache rather than needing to be fetched from slower storage. […]