March 2009
21 posts
Project Voldemort: Scaling Simple Storage at... →
Robotic Tendencies » Top acts →
Even Faster Web Sites →
Steve Souder’s SXSW presentation. Audio is available here
Design For Startups →
I really enjoyed this presentation by Jeffrey Veen
“More ideas, less stuff”
– Lets get creative | The Guardian
“We’re on the cusp of a few things that I want to be part of. The web-of-things,...”
– scraplab : my last day at headshift
Faster rails testing with ruby_fork - Xavier... →
Have to try this, rails-test-serving didn’t really work for me.
Improving Running Components at Twitter →
Good overview about the changes Twitter did to their architecture. Would love the have the audio for this.
Memcached for small objects →
I saw a Facebook presentation recently where they also reported about changing the chunk growth factor to be more in line with the size of cached stuff.
Make Test::Unit display errors earlier →
Not solving the real problem - the long running testsuite - but a good hack nonetheless
rolling rate-limit algorithm →
nice solution for rate limiting based on looking at the last 60 seconds
How to sync an iPhone with two (or more) Computers →
iostat -x « domas mituzas: vaporware, inc. →
thank you very much for this detailed explanation
“The quality of any collaborative creative endeavor tends to approach the level...”
– Gruber’s Auteur Theory of Design
Database Sharding at Netlog, with MySQL and PHP →
This is a really good overview
The Denki Difference →
A small, innovative game company
The Ruby Object Model - Structure and Semantics →
“There are three states of being. Not knowing, action and completion.”
– The Cult of Done Manifesto
Is a Firehose of Snowflakes a Nor’easter? -... →
ActiveRecord Optimization with Scrooge -... →
I usually avoid this kind of magic, but would be interesting to do some benchmarks.