A nice read about facebook's release engineering approach. This should all sound very familiar to Flickr alumni.
A nice read about facebook's release engineering approach. This should all sound very familiar to Flickr alumni.
codahale on cap, harvest and yield. everyone designing distributed systems should read this
dns prefetch can be a big deal for sites that give a subdomain per user
an excellent description of the applied CAP theorem and thinking about systems design in terms of yield/harvest
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
the video of my djangocon keynote has just tipped over 40k views. wow
"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
high scalability seems like a reasonable collection of arch articles and details.
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