I think the database-driven content comes primarily from kitchen sink packages like Wordpress. More often than not, it's better to get an overall look at your structure and decide what needs to be dynamic and what can be "static".

When talking about it internally, we refer to "flat-file" as "generated". Simply meaning that it's dynamically created by a task or user interaction.

Both databases and file systems use B-trees to implement fast read / writes, it's just that SQL databases enforce structure. OTOH, using flat files moves data checking into application space and losing certain ACID properties.

Similar trade offs are made between NoSQL and SQL, dynamic and static languages, but I digress...

1. grepping for conditions and extracting the query with sed

2. appending a char to a flat file (i.e. increasing query count by 1)

3. sort by largest files and get the top 10

Parsing log files[0]:

  for ./*.log -type f -exec echo 1 >> $(grep cond_A {} | grep cond_B | sed -E "s:.*(query).*:./results/\1.txt:") \;

  ls ./results/*.txt -Sl | head

    cat *.log | grep condA | grep condB | sed 'some regex to get rid of dates, etc' | sort | uniq -c | sort -nr | head -n 5

Also, I would assume that javascript becomes a requirement for the functioning of the site; I always considered ecommerce to be the one part of the web were you wanted to be able to operate without javascript, so as not to turn anyone away.

I found this blog post that says that in 2010, 2% in the US had JS disabled:

http://developer.yahoo.com/blogs/ydn/posts/2010/10/how-many-...

The closest analogy I can give is Varnish's Edge Side Includes. It's not exactly the same, but it's very similar.

I found the unexplained use of the word "Boyerism" in this article to be confusing and unprofessional. I have nothing against the use of slang, or the expectation that readers will need to Google terms: this is the reality of our culture in the age of the Internet and excellent search. However, the casual and unexplained use of a private group's inside joke reveals a lack of awareness of how search affects interacts with culture. Is it a deliberate attempt to confuse and snub the larger audience, or is in unintentional?