In March this year I took a great leap forward in performance when I built my in-memory cache. It took my blog from a paltry 5 requests per second to a whooping 62 requests per second. Well, since then I’ve made some changes… Since you already know The Plan, let’s go ahead and talk a little about what the temp agency sent over; The Raspberry Pi. The Raspberry Pi is a $35 computer the size of a credit card. It comes with 2 USB ports, HDMI, 100 Mbit ethernet, a SD card reader for storage and it’s powered by a cellphone charger. It’s also quite similiar to the budget smartphone innards of yesteryear. The Raspberry Pi packs a 700 MHz ARM 11 processor and 256 MBytes of RAM. It also has a pretty powerful GPU but I haven’t used it yet so I’ll leave it at that. Having no other computer at…
