Alan Hamlett

Alan is a full-stack developer who contributes to open source projects. He built WakaTime which is automated analytics for developers with plugins for Eclipse, IntelliJ and NetBeans among others. He writes on entrepreneurship and programming.

Web Servers
Alan HamlettApril 30th, 2021
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Maximize your concurrent web server connections
For production web servers, most people assume scaling means needing faster (and more expensive) hardware. Before spending more money on…
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DevOps
Alan HamlettFebruary 28th, 2021
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Latency of DigitalOcean Spaces vs AWS S3
WakaTime’s infra is split across DigitalOcean and AWS. We use DigitalOcean Droplets for compute resources, AWS S3 to store code stats, and DigitalOcean Spaces for backups. You can find…
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DevOps
Alan HamlettFebruary 26th, 2021
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Using a disk-based Redis clone to reduce AWS S3 bill
Redis is an in-memory database with very high write and read speed, and a limitation that data sets can’t be larger…
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Desktop Java
Alan HamlettFebruary 16th, 2015
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How To Write a NetBeans Plugin
Want to add a feature or automate something in your NetBeans IDE? Follow along as we write your first plugin…
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Maximize your concurrent web server connections

Latency of DigitalOcean Spaces vs AWS S3

Using a disk-based Redis clone to reduce AWS S3 bill

How To Write a NetBeans Plugin

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