1 days ago
deusx : A Bunch of Great Strategies for Using Memcached and MySQL Better Together | High Scalability - "The primero recommendation for speeding up a website is almost always to add cache and more cache. And after that add a little more cache just in case. Memcached is almost always given as the recommended cache to use. What we don't often hear i
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18 days ago
Linkorama : iPhone rants and raves - I'm wondering if this is a trend: devices and services that people love so much that they even love to hate them. We've seen this with twitter. People are so passionate about it that they put up with problems that would kill a lesser product.
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2 month ago
wearehugh : shaver » fsyncers and curveballs - you go to war with the linux you have, not the linux you want.
jcgregorio : shaver » fsyncers and curveballs - "jwz: Boy, it sure was a good idea to store browser history in a database. Again."
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4 month ago
Jeremy Zawodny : Scaling out MySQL: Hardware today and tomorrow - Scaling out MySQL: Hardware today and tomorrow: good talk slides
bmilleare : Scaling out MySQL: Hardware today and tomorrow - Good slides.
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4 month ago
Andy Baio : Improv Anywhere's Best Little League Game Ever - hopefully, they managed to avoid post-gig bitterness
adamrg : Best Game Ever at Improv Everywhere - I love it. Pure fun.
Rod Begbie : Best Game Ever - Improv Everywhere make a Little League baseball game into a massive event. Lovely. [via] #
philgyford : Best Game Ever at Improv Everywhere - Brings a tear to my eye. Another lovely, lovely event.
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7 month ago
Jeremy Zawodny : put a proxy in front - put a proxy in front: proxy wisdom from joshua
wearehugh : joshua's blog: put a proxy in front
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9 month ago
nelson : Firefox memory fragmentation - Seems like a problem a better malloc() could fix
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10 month ago
nelson : High performance ssh - OpenSSH has some weird buffering that causes problems on long 100Mbps links
Jeremy Zawodny : High Performance Enabled SSH/SCP - High Performance Enabled SSH/SCP: some good research enabled this
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12 month ago
deusx : Julien Lecomte’s Blog » Introducing the YUI Compressor - "The YUI Compressor is a new JavaScript minifier. Its level of compaction is higher than the Dojo compressor, and it is as safe as JSMin."
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13 month ago
nelson : Rails vs MySQL - Amazingly detailed technical article about how Ruby on Rails design choices can interact badly with MySQL's limitations
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13 month ago
Simon Willison : Return of the HTTP overhead delay - Return of the HTTP overhead delay. Christian proposes a neat way of improving page performance, by delaying non-essential images such as avatars until after the rest of the page has loaded.
deusx : Return of the HTTP overhead delay - this time without a server side component - Wait till I come! - "Following my post yesterday about delaying the loading of avatar images to cut down on HTTP requests I was wondering if there is a way to do this without having to resort to a server side solution. In short, there is."
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14 month ago
43folders : Macworld: Feature: Top OS X tips, Page 1 [Reduce desktop clutter] - Too many files on your Desktop can ding your performance? I did not know that.
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nelson : Flickr capacity talk - Lots of details about how a big webapp cluster works
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15 month ago
nelson : Page load times matter - nicely written little essay, I wish more sites got this
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15 month ago
nelson : Event driven Mongrel - Ruby gets a working non-blocking IO server?
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15 month ago
Simon Willison : The top 10 presentations on scaling websites: twitter, Flickr, Bloglines, Vox and more. - The top 10 presentations on scaling websites: twitter, Flickr, Bloglines, Vox and more.. I normally avoid linking to “top 10” lists on principle, but this one pulls together some great resources and adds some extra context to each one.
jcgregorio : The top 10 presentations on scaling websites: twitter, Flickr, Bloglines, Vox and more. - Doesn't cover Google or eBay, but still a good list.
jimray : The top 10 presentations on how to scale websites - Flickr, Bloglines, Vox, etc - learn how to build strong sites
bmilleare : The top 10 presentations on scaling websites: twitter, Flickr, Bloglines, Vox and more.
nelson : System scaling - Collection of videos on how they make systems scale
joshua : A bunch of presentations on scaling websites: twitter, Flickr, Bloglines, Vox and more.
philgyford : Peter Van Dijck’s Guide to Ease » Blog Archive » A bunch of presentations on scaling websites: twitter, Flickr, Bloglines, Vox and more. - The kind of thing I keep meaning to read up on. (via Kottke)
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16 month ago
nelson : Perfect DB storage - SmugMug's idea on what makes a great RAID array for MySQL
bmilleare : The Perfect DB Storage Array
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16 month ago
factoryjoe : Google Code - Updates: Google releases patches that enhance the manageability and reliability of MySQL - Though you may think of us as simply a company with a big search index, Google uses MySQL, the open source relational database, in some of the applications that we build that are not search related. We think MySQL is a fantastic data st
Jeremy Zawodny : Google releases patches that enhance the manageability and reliability of MySQL - Google releases patches that enhance the manageability and reliability of MySQL: it's great to see these improvements rolling out of Google
bmilleare : Google releases patches that enhance the manageability and reliability of MySQL
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16 month ago
Andy Baio : 5 Question Interview with Twitter Developer Alex Payne - a cautionary tale about Rails from its biggest user [via]
jimray : 5 Question Interview with Twitter Developer Alex Payne - Cool behind the scenes look and a some frank thoughts on webdev, ruby (and rails) and twitter v. blogging v. journalism. All in a few hundred words! So... meta.
nelson : Twitter engineer interview - One of the Twitter guys talks about how well Ruby on Rails is working for them
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18 month ago
Simon Willison : A brief update with some numbers for hardware load-balanced mongrels - A brief update with some numbers for hardware load-balanced mongrels. 4000 requests/second on 48 mongrels behind a hardware load balancer.
tjogin : Ruby on Rails at 4000 requests per second
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43folders : Snooze your way to high test scores - New Scientist - "...those who had been allowed a nap of up to 1 hour before the re-test scored 15 per cent better in the factual test than the non-nappers..."
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24 month ago
jkottke : New Improv Everywhere mission: 225 people at the Home Depot in Chelsea all moving in slow motion - New Improv Everywhere mission: 225 people at the Home Depot in Chelsea all moving in slow motion. The sped-up video showing all the slow-moers moving at normal speed while everyone else zips around is pretty great. (thx, jakob)
deusx : Improv Everywhere Mission: Slo-Mo Home Depot - "How would people react if they found themselves surrounded by people moving forward at a different rate or time (or not moving at all)?"
Jeremy Zawodny : Slo-Mo Home Depot - Slo-Mo Home Depot: Improv Everywhere rocks
philgyford : Improv Everywhere Mission: Slo-Mo Home Depot - Lots of people go into a store as shoppers and, in unison, all move in slow motion. Shortly after, they all stand motionless, which is even better. (via Kottke)
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25 month ago
wearehugh : ongoing · No Database!?
jcgregorio : ongoing · No Database!? - "But there is a psychology out there in our profession,which says: if you have data that you want to store and retrieve, that means you need a database. But sometimes you don’t."
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