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Best Practices – Mongo Speed vs Distant WAN Yes — MongoDB replica sets across WANs can significantly impact performance, especially for read and write operations that wait on acknowledgments or are sensitive to replication lag. Here’s how to speed up your MongoDB replica set: Best Practices: 1. Yes, remove distant secondaries if: 2. Use readPreference: … Read more
Experiencing the maddeningly Inexplicable? Suspect AppArmor FIRST Nothing in a Long While has roused such ancient Microsft-ish Hatred and Total Retrograde to “Reboot As Fix Attempt” as AppArmor going silent default in Debian12. SILENT GOBBLER OF HUMAN LIFETIME, APPARMOR WILL INTERFERE DEATHTLY WITH DOCKER CONTAINERS BY SILENT DEFAULT — ITS EVIL ACTIONS ARE VERY TOUGH … Read more
DMARC DKIM SPF Email anti-spam slow-motion trainwreck Recently a client’s long-well-running, important email process was broken, halting reception by their sales team of emailed notifications regardings product inquiries on their website. This was all working well before ~January. Quick fix: website will now send emails marked as being “From:sales@YOUR.net” Longer explanation: Microsoft/Outlook and/or 2cows.com apparently … Read more
Benchmarks of Docker vs BareMetal Note concern over mounted data volumes for Mongo Here are real-world performance comparison examples of MongoDB running on bare-metal vs Docker, using benchmarks and reports from known tests or developer observations: 1. Percona Benchmarks (2018–2020) Setup: MongoDB 4.x tested using YCSB (Yahoo! Cloud Serving Benchmark) and sysbench on identical hardware. … Read more
NetSuite Internals – Transaction_Line Table Transaction_Line Table in NetSuite: A Complete Guide The Transaction_Line table in NetSuite contains line-level details for all types of transactions. This is a child table of the Transaction table, meaning each record represents an individual line item within a transaction (e.g., sales order, invoice, bill, etc.). 
Purpose of Transaction_Line … Read more
Is Oracle NetSuite a Boat Anchor to sink Small Business? “We literally went from [sub-]second response / redraw times to routinely 5 seconds, sometimes 30 seconds or more, in common functions such as adding an Invoice and displaying a table of Invoices… it is totally ridiculous, ruinous to our productivity. … Several expensive consultants have … Read more
Oracle NetSuite N/cache offers coded per-feature optimization This appears to be a dev-specific option, not a broad/general thing like HeadInClouds’. Someone could implement this N/cache caching by writing code specific to super-slow forms, features, functions. Might be worthwhile to add onto painfully slow functions. Info, link and blurb below. NetSuite offers the ‘N/cache’ module, which … Read more
Inside NetSuite per user Cache claims meaningful 4x Speed Boost This appears to be a per-user inside-of-netscape cache. Demo shows 5 seconds dropping to 1 second which would be meaningfully faster. A demo of the Record Speed Optimizer SuiteApp, created by Head in the Cloud Development and AzroNet Business Systems. This SuiteApp improves the loading … Read more
SEO Best Practice Consensus Why to use What Redirect 301 302 307 404 410 Feb 2025 SEO Best Practice for Non-Existent Web Pages When handling non-existent pages (dead links, deleted content, mistyped URLs, etc.), the best approach depends on the intent, user experience, and SEO impact. Below is a breakdown of different options and their … Read more
Most Hackers attack from ~9,000 IP addresses May 2019 — 99.99% of computer hacking, snooping, intrusion and “back-door knob-turning” attempts originate from fewer than 9,000 IP addresses worldwide — which represents fewer than 0.0003% of the approximately 4 billion standard IPv4 addresses available. The dogs are easily blocked by Internet firewall. Login for our list … Read more