iamcal.com Linklog

2011-06-23 14:38:57

codahale on cap, harvest and yield. everyone designing distributed systems should read this

2011-03-09 22:30:43

dns prefetch can be a big deal for sites that give a subdomain per user

2010-10-11 11:12:36

an excellent description of the applied CAP theorem and thinking about systems design in terms of yield/harvest

2010-08-16 21:30:47

noting these down for later reference - two excellent answers on quora from adam d'angelo on why quora uses mysql instead of postgres or a nosql solution. he says everything i've been saying for the last few years, but more eloquently

2008-09-24 13:06:19

the video of my djangocon keynote has just tipped over 40k views. wow

2008-09-17 09:08:32

"This guy is annoying as hell, I couldn't slap him enough." I heart reddit commenters. oh yes - video is now up for my django con talk

2007-07-26 09:54:43

high scalability seems like a reasonable collection of arch articles and details.