hellovetica 2012-02-06T13:33:57+00:00 Hellovetica - scalability http://www.hellovetica.com/hello/scalability/ hello@hellovetica.com Missive 1308865137 hello:1308865137 2011-06-23T16:38:57+00:00 2011-06-23T16:38:57+00:00 codahale on <a href="http://codahale.com/you-cant-sacrifice-partition-tolerance/">cap, harvest and yield</a>. everyone designing distributed systems should read this Missive 1299738643 hello:1299738643 2011-03-10T00:30:43+00:00 2011-03-10T00:30:43+00:00 dns prefetch can be a <a href="http://www.pinkbike.com/news/DNS-Prefetching-implications.html">big deal</a> for sites that give a subdomain per user Missive 1286820756 hello:1286820756 2010-10-11T13:12:36+00:00 2010-10-11T13:12:36+00:00 an <a href="http://codahale.com/you-cant-sacrifice-partition-tolerance/">excellent description</a> of the applied CAP theorem and thinking about systems design in terms of yield/harvest Missive 1282019447 hello:1282019447 2010-08-16T23:30:47+00:00 2010-08-16T23:30:47+00:00 noting these down for later reference - two <a href="http://www.quora.com/Why-doesnt-Quora-use-PostgreSQL">excellent</a> <a href="http://www.quora.com/Why-does-Quora-use-MySQL-as-the-data-store-rather-than-NoSQLs-such-as-Cassandra-MongoDB-CouchDB-etc">answers</a> on quora from adam d'angelo on why quora uses mysql instead of postgres or a nosql solution. he says everything i've been saying for the last few years, but more eloquently Missive 1222286779 hello:1222286779 2008-09-24T15:06:19+00:00 2008-09-24T15:06:19+00:00 the <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i6Fr65PFqfk">video</a> of my djangocon keynote has just tipped over 40k views. wow Missive 1221667712 hello:1221667712 2008-09-17T11:08:32+00:00 2008-09-17T11:08:32+00:00 "This guy is annoying as hell, I couldn't slap him enough." I heart reddit <a href="http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/71osl/why_i_hate_django_video/">commenters</a>. oh yes - <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i6Fr65PFqfk">video</a> is now up for my django con talk Missive 1185468883 hello:1185468883 2007-07-26T11:54:43+00:00 2007-07-26T11:54:43+00:00 <a hrf="http://highscalability.com/">high scalability</a> seems like a reasonable collection of arch articles and details.