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May 27
InfoQ: Facebook: Moving Fast at Scale

Whatever your opinion about Facebook is, you can’t deny they have kick-ass engineering.
May 19
“ I’m really surprised we aren’t seeing more people writing and talking about what I see as Facebook’s key competitive advantage: It’s a data driven company, which is nimble enough to act on that data. Henry Blodget: “Facebook’s Approach To Innovation Is The Secret To Its Success” - Laughing Meme
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“ Spend less time fantasizing about ‘success’ and way more time making really cool mistakes Watching the Corners: On Future-Proofing Your Passion | 43 Folders
May 9
A fast, fuzzy, full-text index using Redis | PlayNice.ly

Just because you can
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More mastering the art of indexing

From the category “Knowing more that you want to”, but unfortunately needed for writing fast MySQL queries
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PXE dust: scalable day-to-day diskless booting

for future reference
April 25
Code: Flickr Developer Blog » Ishmael – a UI for mk-query-digest

This looks immensely useful
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The Case for Git Rebase
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Tangled Up in Tools

“What’s Wrong with Libraries, and What to Do about It”
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mcollective

“The Marionette Collective aka. mcollective is a framework to build server orchestration or parallel job execution systems.”