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Facebook Engineering Process

nobody@domain.com (Cal Henderson) — Thu, 19 Apr 2012 02:22:00 +0000

A nice read about facebook's release engineering approach. This should all sound very familiar to Flickr alumni.

23rd June, 9:38 pm

nobody@domain.com (Cal Henderson) — Thu, 23 Jun 2011 21:38:00 +0000

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

10th March, 6:30 am

nobody@domain.com (Cal Henderson) — Thu, 10 Mar 2011 06:30:00 +0000

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

11th October, 6:12 pm

nobody@domain.com (Cal Henderson) — Mon, 11 Oct 2010 18:12:00 +0000

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

17th August, 4:30 am

nobody@domain.com (Cal Henderson) — Tue, 17 Aug 2010 04:30:00 +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

24th September, 8:06 pm

nobody@domain.com (Cal Henderson) — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 20:06:00 +0000

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

17th September, 4:08 pm

nobody@domain.com (Cal Henderson) — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 16:08:00 +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

26th July, 4:54 pm

nobody@domain.com (Cal Henderson) — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 16:54:00 +0000

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