Small is NOT so small

It’s been like a few months not posting into my own blog. The 24th day of 2011 and it seems that months have passed by just like that. In the span of 24 days that have passed, every single day is cramped with all the aspects of being a startup. Just today, I went from a programmer, a cable crimper, a business partner, a troubleshooter, a mobile app consultant, a colleague to a friend for a friend, all in just one day. Multiply that by 24 and that’s exactly what’s been going on. The dynamics revolving is mind blowing. ...

January 24, 2011 · Batista Harahap

Cryptic Consequences - Memcache

This is yet another blog post about the almighty Memcache hehehe. As do all of us I assume, more than often Memcache has always been a lifesaver won’t you say? Well at least when it is tamed, I’m positive it’s a lifesaver anytime, when it’s still wild, extremely saying: you shit bricks lol. Well here’s another Memcache experience. First of all you gotta visit http://memcached.org man. The header from the top right is littered with illustrations of either rabbits or cats. I can’t seem to distinguish which animal but for sure Memcache is an animal need taming lol. Your codes needs to be able to cope with Memcache’s wild behavior hehehe. ...

January 3, 2011 · Batista Harahap

MongoDB With CodeIgniter

Today was started with a big curiosity towards Urbanesia’s recent performance drop. This week we discovered that although we have completely revamped our codes to hack CI to use MongoDB as its session storage instead of MySQL, we found that Memcache is the bottleneck. When I woke up today, I was devastated to know that it took at minimum 5.7 seconds to load any of our business profiles. So I went hunting for the source of this irritating loading time. The Memcache problem was because our Sofvia server is at its limit, we’ve pushed the CPU utilization to her max and Memcache is simply not getting enough CPU Power. The main cause is putting 2 Memcache instances in Sofvia which in turn made CPU utilizations soar. When Memcache was out of CPU resource, the server was on an endless loop with load averages sky rocketing to > 100. Reference is here. ...

December 30, 2010 · Batista Harahap

KanalFOTO.com - Stock Photo Indonesia

This website is aimed as THE portal of Indonesian stock photos. Currently still in the process of piecing it all together. What I can tell you, it’s a purebred of OpenSource magic and Facebook will be its best friend. A first for me to incorporate Facebook wonders with websites. My first start was Facebook Connect. The Connect feature is already live on the homepage. Although now not 100% yet, it’s a preview of what’s to come. The next step is an application. ...

March 25, 2009 · Batista Harahap