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High Scalability - High Scalability - Tumblr Architecture - 15 Billion Page Views a Month and Harder to Scale than Twitter 14 Feb 2012 | 10:17 am
With over 15 billion page views a month Tumblr has become an insanely popular blogging platform. Users may like Tumblr for its simplicity, its beauty, its strong focus on user experience, or its frien...
William Hertling's Thoughtstream: Scaling A Web App 1,000x in 3 Days 13 Feb 2012 | 11:56 am
When I'm not writing science fiction novels, I work on web apps for a largish company*. This week was pretty darn exciting: we learned on Monday afternoon that we needed to scale up to a peak volume o...
iTerm2 - Mac OS Terminal Replacement 24 Jan 2012 | 10:43 am
via iterm2.com If you're anything like me, you're probably dealing a lot with the terminal. I use it all the time because i'm working with Git and lots of branches, i create cron jobs and console app...
Next-generation sharing economies: why real-time matters most — Tech News and Analysis 18 Jan 2012 | 10:33 am
As it matures, the driving force of the sharing economy will become time, and the companies that can do business in real-time will occupy a more strategic, and profitable, place in the ecosystem. Fre...
Redesigning the Country Selector - Baymard Institute 12 Nov 2011 | 10:28 am
Using principles of progressive enhancement we turn a standard drop-down into an advanced auto-complete field. This means the drop-down remains accessible, while providing a much better experience in ...
How GitHub Uses GitHub to Build GitHub 23 Sep 2011 | 07:42 am
How GitHub Uses GitHub to Build GitHub September 21, 2011 / Helsinki, Finland / Frozen Rails 2011 Build features fast. Ship them. That's what we try to do at GitHub. Our process is the anti-process:...
Bootstrapping a Software Product // Speaker Deck 23 Sep 2011 | 06:44 am
The Speaker Garrett Dimon Garrett is the founder, designer, and developer of Sifter, a simple hosted bug and issue tracking application. View Speaker Details via speakerdeck.com Another great pre...
Adaptive Images 22 Sep 2011 | 06:21 am
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labs | CodeIgniter/ActiveRecord setup to use master + slave db replication 21 Sep 2011 | 01:03 am
This is how you can set up CodeIgniter to direct mysql queries to different read/write hosts in your db replicated environment, using a db_slave for your SELECT’s, and a db_master for the INSERT/UPDAT...
High Scalability - High Scalability - Must see: 5 Steps to Scaling MongoDB (Or Any DB) in 8 Minutes 19 Sep 2011 | 09:54 pm
Jared Rosoff concisely, effectively, entertainingly, and convincingly gives an 8 minute MongoDB tutorial on scaling MongoDB at Scale Out Camp. The ideas aren't just limited to MongoDB, they work for m...
