I’ve been a Linode fan and customer for years, but just this week I was made aware of a competing VPS host – DigitalOcean. It’s a pretty compelling sell. A VPS for $5 a month, with a 20GB SSD and 512MB of RAM. Fucking, sweet. But when something sounds this good, I’m sceptical. To dispell or validate my thoughts of a “catch”, I turn to a handy performance analysis tool – Phoronix Benchmark Suite. Here’s the skinny…

I recently started using MongoMapper for a project at work. The documentation is pretty sparse and I needed to confirm the precise order of callbacks, per action. So I wrote some simple test code to do just that. Here are the results:

This tutorial assumes a few things, 1. You’re operating system is OSx Mountain Lion 2. You have the latest Homebrew installed (if not, go here fist) 3. You have the latest Xcode installed (4.5 at time of writing, may work with other versions)…