January 2012
2 posts
ImperialViolet - Overclocking SSL →
Strace -- The Sysadmin's Microscope →
December 2011
2 posts
David Eagleman and Mysteries of the Brain : The... →
(via Instapaper)
Rands In Repose: The Makers of Things →
(via Instapaper)
November 2011
7 posts
It seems to me that Facebook and Twitter and YouTube—and just so you don’t think...
– The American Scholar: Solitude and Leadership - William Deresiewicz
russell davies: how to be interesting →
Why code review beats testing: evidence from... →
Google+'s technology stack →
A Brief Rant on the Future of Interaction Design →
The Social Graph is Neither (Pinboard Blog) →
EC2 to VPC: A transition worth doing.
kiip-engineering:
Kiip recently completed a migration from EC2 to VPC. VPC exited beta and became generally available in all regions in August, and allows you to provision compute nodes within a virtual network in AWS. For anything more than simple websites, we believe migrating to VPC is something worth doing, or at the very least worth investigating.
Because Amazon VPC is a new service and...
October 2011
8 posts
At Facebook, there was a cultural resistance to process, to the point where the...
– Yishan Wong: Engineering Management - Process (via Justin Singer)
Deep dive: Cancellation rate in SaaS business... →
Caterina.net» Blog Archive » Killing the Abraham →
Urban Airship: Postgres to NoSQL and back | Hacker... →
Rands In Repose: The Rands Test →
Scala School →
If you aren’t getting rejected on a daily basis, your goals aren’t ambitious...
– cdixon.org – chris dixon’s blog / Some lessons learned
John Lanchester · The Non-Scenic Route to the... →
(via Instapaper)
September 2011
6 posts
Debugging Ruby Performance // Speaker Deck →
Learn these tools, use these tools
pyrasite - Trac →
Inject code into a running Python process.
The Cooper Journal: Innovation is a waste disposal... →
It's Not Just Standing Up: Patterns for Daily... →
Patterns For Large-Scale JavaScript Application... →
Fault Tolerance and Protection →
August 2011
5 posts
Roy's musings: SSL session reuse - how to find if... →
SSL handshake latency and HTTPS optimizations. ::... →
Find out what is using your swap | All things... →
Ian Bogost - Gamification is Bullshit →
Fastersite: Finding memory leaks →
July 2011
8 posts
MySQL Soapbox: XtraBackup Manager - Backup... →
mySQL DBA: Automated Innodb Hot Backup to S3 from... →
Still, it’s worth keeping an eye on the link between our vanishing boredom...
– Scott Adams Blog: Creativity 07/13/2011
How to use A/B testing for better product design |... →
Things Everyone Should Do: Code Review | Good... →
Can We Ever Digitally Organize Our Friends? «... →
Obliged to Do Meaningful Work | Smarterware →
(via Instapaper)
HDFS: Realtime Hadoop usage at Facebook: The... →
June 2011
3 posts
Three Aspects of DevOps: What’s in a word «... →
Good breakdown
Scaling with MongoDB →
or not
Runit for Ruby (And Everything Else) →
May 2011
16 posts
How to Get a Small Cert Chain « Mike's Lookout →
MySQL metrics for read workloads | domas mituzas →
To me, code is inventory. It is stuff lying around and it has substantial cost...
– Michael Feathers: The Carrying-Cost of Code: Taking Lean Seriously
SSL handshake latency and HTTPS optimizations. ::... →
mnot’s blog: On HTTP Load Testing →
this is hard
Sharding techniques at Mixpanel Engineering →
Cool, but obscure unix tools :: KKovacs →
Test::Right: Browser testing done right | Selenium... →
This looks immensely useful