http://www.iamcal.com/ All the links rom iamcal.com 2012-04-19T02:22:00Z http://www.iamcal.com/images/logo.gif http://www.iamcal.com/ http://www.iamcal.com/2012-04/facebook-engineering-process/ <p>A <a href="http://arstechnica.com/business/news/2012/04/exclusive-a-behind-the-scenes-look-at-facebook-release-engineering.ars/1">nice read</a> about facebook's release engineering approach. This should all sound very familiar to Flickr alumni.</p> 2012-04-19T02:22:00Z Cal Henderson (http://www.iamcal.com/) http://www.iamcal.com/2011-06/2685/ <p>codahale on <a href="http://codahale.com/you-cant-sacrifice-partition-tolerance/">cap, harvest and yield</a>. everyone designing distributed systems should read this</p> 2011-06-23T21:38:00Z Cal Henderson (http://www.iamcal.com/) http://www.iamcal.com/2011-03/2618/ <p>dns prefetch can be a <a href="http://www.pinkbike.com/news/DNS-Prefetching-implications.html">big deal</a> for sites that give a subdomain per user</p> 2011-03-10T06:30:00Z Cal Henderson (http://www.iamcal.com/) http://www.iamcal.com/2010-10/2562/ <p>an <a href="http://codahale.com/you-cant-sacrifice-partition-tolerance/">excellent description</a> of the applied CAP theorem and thinking about systems design in terms of yield/harvest</p> 2010-10-11T18:12:00Z Cal Henderson (http://www.iamcal.com/) http://www.iamcal.com/2010-08/2540/ <p>noting these down for later reference - two <a href="http://www.quora.com/Why-doesnt-Quora-use-PostgreSQL">excellent</a> <a href="http://www.quora.com/Why-does-Quora-use-MySQL-as-the-data-store-rather-than-NoSQLs-such-as-Cassandra-MongoDB-CouchDB-etc">answers</a> 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</p> 2010-08-17T04:30:00Z Cal Henderson (http://www.iamcal.com/) http://www.iamcal.com/2008-09/1950/ <p>the <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i6Fr65PFqfk">video</a> of my djangocon keynote has just tipped over 40k views. wow</p> 2008-09-24T20:06:00Z Cal Henderson (http://www.iamcal.com/) http://www.iamcal.com/2008-09/1922/ <p>"This guy is annoying as hell, I couldn't slap him enough." I heart reddit <a href="http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/71osl/why_i_hate_django_video/">commenters</a>. oh yes - <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i6Fr65PFqfk">video</a> is now up for my django con talk</p> 2008-09-17T16:08:00Z Cal Henderson (http://www.iamcal.com/) http://www.iamcal.com/2007-07/1344/ <p><a hrf="http://highscalability.com/">high scalability</a> seems like a reasonable collection of arch articles and details.</p> 2007-07-26T16:54:00Z Cal Henderson (http://www.iamcal.com/)