Crashing Google Chrome on Google website

Used version of Google Chrome Version 31.0.1650.63

OS Version: Ubuntu 12.04.3 LTS, Linux work 3.2.0-57-generic #87-Ubuntu SMP Tue Nov 12 21:35:10 UTC 2013 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

Go on Google Trends website http://www.google.com/trends/topcharts?zg=full

Click View #my2013 Gallery

Click any picture

Click the browser’s back button

Click again the browser’s back button

Crashed… or it will take between 20 seconds and 1-2 minutes to refresh that page.

Making a super fast blog with Drupal 7

Yesterday I decided to try to make my blog to load under 200 ms from my laptop using Drupal 7without loose my old links to blog posts, from SEO reasons. I know, some people would say there are better solutions for a blog others than Drupal, but… I wanted to give a try to Drupal because it has one of the biggest community, a lot of modules and features and of course for fun.

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HLS Video on Demand streaming

First of all, let’s explain shortly what HLS is.

HTTP Live Streaming (also known as HLS) is an HTTP-based media streaming communications protocol implemented by Apple. Since it requires only standard HTTP transactions, HTTP Live Streaming is capable of traversing any firewall or proxy server that lets through standard HTTP traffic, unlike UDP-based protocols such as RTP. This also allows content to be delivered over widely available CDNs. In a few words, HLS works by breaking the overall stream into a sequence of small HTTP-based file downloads. At the start of the streaming session, the client downloads an extended M3U (m3u8) playlist containing the metadata for the various sub-streams (called TS files) which are available. You can read more about HLS Architecture on Apple Developer website.

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