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2011-06-23 14:38:57

nobody@domain.com (Cal Henderson) — Thu, 23 Jun 2011 14:38:57 +0000

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

2011-03-09 22:30:43

nobody@domain.com (Cal Henderson) — Wed, 9 Mar 2011 22:30:43 +0000

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

2010-10-11 11:12:36

nobody@domain.com (Cal Henderson) — Mon, 11 Oct 2010 11:12:36 +0000

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

2010-08-16 21:30:47

nobody@domain.com (Cal Henderson) — Mon, 16 Aug 2010 21:30:47 +0000

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

nobody@domain.com (Cal Henderson) — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 13:06:19 +0000

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

2008-09-17 09:08:32

nobody@domain.com (Cal Henderson) — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 09:08:32 +0000

"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

nobody@domain.com (Cal Henderson) — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 09:54:43 +0000

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