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We’ve migrated from core Drupal-6 to Pressflow, a back-port of Drupal-7 performance features. Using Pressflow allows us to cache anonymous web-requests (about 77% of our traffic) for 5-minutes and return them right from memory. While this vastly improves the amount of traffic we can handle as well as the speed of anonymous page-loads it […]…Continue Reading Website Performance: Pressflow, Varnish, Oh-My!
Day: May 17, 2010
Revisiting Earlier “Specter-lations” on the Eve of the Pennsylvania Senate Primary
One advantage political scientists have over the media or pundits is that we have the luxury of revisiting earlier projections/explanations in light of new data or theorizing. This is an advantage when writing a blog that tries to focus on the fundamentals driving political events rather than simply opining on the latest topical event. In […]…Continue Reading Revisiting Earlier “Specter-lations” on the Eve of the Pennsylvania Senate Primary