14 things tagged “scaling”
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Thursday March 24, 2011
Moving Fast at Scale: the slides, and a reprise in NYC « Code as Craft
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Friday March 18, 2011
Don't Let Third Parties Slow You Down: Velocity 2010, Web Performance & Operations Conference - O'Reilly Conferences, June 22 - 24, 2010, Santa Clara, CA
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Tuesday March 8, 2011
Anatomy of a Crushing (Pinboard Blog)
How Pinboard handled the traffic burst when Delicious got "sunset'd" -
Friday March 4, 2011
Scaling A JavaScript Codebase
A basic guide to using modules and dependencies for large JS projects. Quite similar to the Last.fm approach. -
Saturday October 9, 2010
So, that was a bummer. | Foursquare Blog
"Yesterday, we experienced a very long downtime." An apology and explanation of significant (11 hours+) downtime. Sounds like they're having problems with MongoDB, unknown load balancing problems and introducing a status page (durrr). Always interesting to see how other sites handle downtime. -
Friday May 7, 2010
Last.fm vs Xbox at DIBI Conference
Last week I had the pleasure of speaking at the Design It, Build It conference in Newcastle, where I... -
Tuesday April 13, 2010
Brewer's CAP Theorem
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Thursday February 4, 2010
Faster PHP fo shizzle—HipHop for PHP
One of the first sensible write ups of Facebooks HipHop, by someone who's actually been involved. Covers why it's irrelevant for 99% of PHP users, the rare times it might be useful and a whole bunch of internal facebook scaling background too. -
Thursday July 2, 2009
How Facebook launched and scaled username sign-ups
Interesting notes on how they handled the massive traffic spike during the "pick your username" launch. Including some dark launching and an interesting set of options to reduce load in other ways if they needed too. -
Tuesday May 12, 2009
Memcached Internals - MySQL Conf
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Scaling out at Facebook
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Sunday May 11, 2008
Notes from Scaling MySQL - Up or Out
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Thursday April 17, 2008
Super-sising YouTube with Python
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Saturday October 6, 2007
Slides on Flickr's architecture