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Jeremy Zawodny : How We Made GitHub Fast - GitHub - How We Made GitHub Fast - GitHub: good to see stuff like this
Simon Willison : How We Made GitHub Fast - How We Made GitHub Fast. Detailed overview of the new GitHub architecture. It’s a lot more complicated than I would have expected—lots of moving parts are involved in ensuring they can scale horizontally when they need to. Interesting components inc
nelson : GitHub architecture - Nice summary of various server technologies the site uses
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nelson : Orbeted comet server - HTTP server optimized for keeping persistent connections open to thousands of clients
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Jeremy Zawodny : fit-PC2 Wiki - fit-PC2 Wiki: how awesome is that?
nelson : fit-PC2 - Sweet looking low power server. 6 watts, $300, runs Linux or WinXP
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nelson : Google's 12V servers - Some detail on Google hardware
Andy Baio : Google reveals details about its custom server hardware and datacenters - "It was our Manhattan Project" [via]
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20 month ago
Linkorama : Knowing what's on your phone--and on those of your employees - First we throw all our data on servers, in clouds, on Amazon's S3, on Google Docs, etc., for the convenience of being able to get at it wherever we go. Then we bring the data back to us again in various caches at very distances from us--proxy servers at t
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30 month ago
nelson : LT security break - They blog their "confidential" disclosure
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33 month ago
nelson : subcon - Check in system config files to Subversion, then push to production servers
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35 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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37 month ago
nelson : Perlbal - Yet more amazing brad fitzpatrick software; a simple HTTP reverse proxy load balancer
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43 month ago
bmilleare : Montastic: the free website monitoring service
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45 month ago
kayodeok : Mark's Sysinternals Blog: The Power in Power Users - What many administrators fail to realize, however, is that this power comes at the price of true limited-user security
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50 month ago
kayodeok : GMail code hints at coming domain feature - Based on information found buried deep within the javascript source, we can start to see the bigger picture for GMail — what else could they possibly add to this mail client? Their next big move will likely be GMail for domains — a powerful
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50 month ago
kellan : How to write a fast, light weight web server in Ruby (and a little C) - Sounds similar to JAWS (at least circa 1999). I'm going to take a look at Ragel #
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51 month ago
kayodeok : Is the NSA snooping your email? Wanna find out? - Use your imagination to think about what would interest the NSA these days. You know... phrases like "Bin Laden wants to kill the imperialist pig-dog George W. Bush with a dirty bomb of VX gas"
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51 month ago
kayodeok : You Never Forget Your First Web Server (by Jeremy Zawodny) - You Never Forget Your First Web Server
deusx : You Never Forget Your First Web Server (by Jeremy Zawodny) - "Back in college, I managed to convince one of the staff to give my personal computer a static IP address so that I could run a web server."
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52 month ago
kayodeok : Hack Attack: Take your data home for the holidays - Lifehacker - As you get ready to head home for the holidays, make sure that your computer is accessible from wherever you go, no matter how far from home
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52 month ago
kayodeok : 20 ways to Secure your Apache Configuration - Here are 20 things you can do to make your apache configuration more secure
Paul Hammond : 20 ways to Secure your Apache Configuration
François Nonnenmacher : 20 ways to Secure your Apache Configuration
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54 month ago
kayodeok : How to set up a home FTP server - how to set up a personal FTP server at home
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54 month ago
kayodeok : Lifehacker Home Server Series of articles
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55 month ago
kayodeok : How to control your home computer from anywhere - In this tutorial, we'll set up a VNC (Virtual Network Computing) server on your home computer, which will let you connect to your desktop and drive it from any Internet-connected computer.
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56 month ago
kayodeok : WP-Cache 2.0: An efficient WordPress page caching system to make your site much faster and responsive - It works by caching Worpress pages and storing them in a static file for serving future requests directly from the file rather than loading and compiling the whole PHP code and then building the page from the database
deusx : del.icio.us warning: non-utf8 string! (sorry) - "WP-Cache is an extremely efficient WordPress page caching system to make your site much faster and responsive."
merlinmann : Ricardo Galli, de software libre � WP-Cache 2.0 - So, uh, you see my ass back there? Yeah. That. Well this is what completely saved it. Hosting companies and WP users owe Ricardo big time.
jimray : WP-Cache 2.0 - Make your dynamic WP pages static; improves performance on really high traffic sites
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