24 days ago
deusx : 7 Stages of Scaling Web Applications - SlideShare - "Slides from LinuxWorld presentation by John Engates, CTO of Rackspace."
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deusx : Beware of the Dog | JoeDog / Siege - "Siege is an http regression testing and benchmarking utility. It was designed to let web developers measure the performance of their code under duress, to see how it will stand up to load on the internet. Siege supports basic authentication, cookies
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Simon Willison : Minimal nginx conf to split get/post requests - Minimal nginx conf to split get/post requests. Interesting idea for master-slave replication balancing where GET v.s. POST is load-balanced by nginx, presumably to different backend servers that are configured to talk to either a slave or a master. This
deusx : Django snippets: minimal nginx conf to split get/post requests - "After a point the sql server becomes the bottleneck in lots of web application, and to scale, master-slave replication with single master, multiple slave is recommended. This setup with nginx can be used to accomplish traffic distribution between ma
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2 month ago
deusx : Code: Flickr Developer Blog » Flickr Engineers Do It Offline - "It seems that using queuing systems in web apps is the new hottness . While the basic idea itself certainly isn’t new, its application to modern, large, scalable sites seems to be. At the very least, it’s something that deserves talking about
Simon Willison : Flickr Engineers Do It Offline - Flickr Engineers Do It Offline. Flickr wrote their own queuing mechanism (in PHP), and currently run ten queue servers on dedicated hardware for tasks like pushing new photos in to indexes, denormalisation and “backfills” which move data between clu
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6 month ago
Rod Begbie : Break Up the Memcache Dog Pile - Good tips on how to use memcache in a way that doesn't put a huge strain on your database every time the cache expires. #
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7 month ago
deusx : I'm Going To Scale My Foot Up Your Ass - Ted Dziuba - "Shut up about scalability, no one is using your app anyway."
Jeremy Zawodny : I'm Going To Scale My Foot Up Your Ass - Ted Dziuba - I'm Going To Scale My Foot Up Your Ass - Ted Dziuba: hahahhahahahaahahhahha... so true
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11 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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15 month ago
Jeremy Zawodny : Yahoo's Doug Cutting on MapReduce and the Future of Hadoop - Yahoo's Doug Cutting on MapReduce and the Future of Hadoop: "In this special InfoQ interview Cutting discusses how Hadoop is used at Yahoo, the challenges of its development, and the future direction of the project."
nelson : Hadoop interview - Doug Cutting is one of the smartest programmers I know
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22 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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22 month ago
wearehugh : Joe Gregorio | BitWorking | Three orders of magnitude
jcgregorio : Joe Gregorio | BitWorking | Three orders of magnitude
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33 month ago
kellan : Sat, March 4th: RobotCoop served 2.5 million Rails pages - And they've open sourced key pieces of their scalability architecture #
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36 month ago
kellan : "they've missed the implicit bargain for search engines that my site being crawled results in [value] for me." - I've been very struct by this idea lately. #
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