February 2012
2 posts
“Don’t hire people based on their survival through a useless technological...”
– High Scalability - High Scalability - Tumblr Architecture - 15 Billion Page Views a Month and Harder to Scale than Twitter
“Some members of the team felt like any changes so close to the big day would be...”
– William Hertling’s Thoughtstream: Scaling A Web App 1,000x in 3 Days
August 2011
2 posts
“We discover that many of our weaknesses are actually strengths once we learn how...”
– Paul Buchheit: I am nothing
“We can predict, however, problems like this will continue to happen, not because...”
– High Scalability - High Scalability - Should any cloud be considered one availability zone? The Amazon experience says yes.
May 2011
1 post
“The amount of skill that you have in a certain area is proportional to the...”
– johnfn’s blog @ GitHub
April 2011
1 post
“Ideas suck. Visions rock.”
– HackFwd Blog - Ideas Suck: A Tale of Lust vs Love
March 2011
3 posts
“If people don’t understand it,
we engineered it wrong.”
– Copy of It’s Time to Fix HTTPS
“The very best startup ideas, the ones that are the biggest successes, tend to be...”
– Money Man
“Of course, as many Japanese netizens have pointed out, there is a way to avoid...”
– The Annoying Song That’s Plaguing Japan
February 2011
3 posts
“This code is incomprehensible… First of all, there are no curly braces...”
– najafali.com - Why PHP is better than Ruby
“I am smart, the kids’ reasoning goes; I don’t need to put out effort. Expending...”
– How Not to Talk to Your Kids
Offical method for shutting down cleanly an Akka... →
Akka is crash-only software. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crash-only_software Just ‘kill -9’ it.
December 2010
1 post
“I believe that there is no such thing as talent. There is only passion. I have a...”
– There is no talent — Timeless from Magnus Holm
November 2010
3 posts
“In Fun, when you say “Hello ” user.name, you don’t mean just...”
– Fun (a programming language for the realtime web)
“As a solution i need to explicitly set the version number as 0.20 to the...”
– Feel My Presence: Hadoop Version in AWS Map Reduce
“The difference between a grand vision and a wacky delusion can only be...”
– Twitter / @Adam Wiggins: The difference between a g …
September 2010
2 posts
“Please apologize for your stupidity.”
– goat-time with wind, pole, dragon inter help? - shibboleth-users (read-only archive) | Google Groups
“His best quote is this: “The way that many are using NoSQL is like discovering...”
– SQL vs. NoSQL | Linux Journal
August 2010
3 posts
“An “About Us” page is a good way to provide this information and to...”
– What Does Your “About Us” Page Say About Your Startup?
“Don’t be afraid to charge for your product.”
– Pricing models, the freemium myth and why you may not be charging enough for your product | Seth Levine
“Run MongoDB as a replica set. When you really need the extra capacity then, and...”
– Sharding and Replica Sets Illustrated
July 2010
2 posts
“Even when manufacturers find ways to simplify complex processes, it seems people...”
– The Dirtiest Word in UX: Complexity | UX Magazine
“That’s the moment of truth. The moment when customer expectations are set....”
– Requirements aren’t evil, we are. - Stephen Cohen’s Thoughts on Agile and Project Recovery - Site Home - MSDN Blogs
June 2010
3 posts
“There’s a big difference between adding a feature to an existing product and...”
– I laughed at Posterous, but they proved me wrong - Hi.
“In essence, programming with #defines and typedefs results in every programmer...”
– John Fremlin’s blog: Scala is not a better Java
“Having a schema-less database does not mean your application is schema-less. It...”
– Reflections on MongoDB // Collective Idea
May 2010
6 posts
“The only thing that everyone seems to agree upon is how stupid all the other...”
– Mea Culpa
“It’s only too late if you don’t start now”
– Twitter / Adam Wiggins: “It’s only too late if you …
“:(){ :|:& };:”
– Fork bomb - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Hacker's Code →
“While many will probably dismiss immediately such a concern — basically the...”
– NoSQL and Psychology « myNoSQL
“/* See the file “LICENSE” for the full license governing this code....”
– Get Rid of Source Code Templates | Hacker Boss
April 2010
22 posts
“Apple is just Microsoft with better marketing”
– Apple is just Microsoft with better marketing
“Ironically, raising millions of dollars is usually easier than raising...”
– Ditch the Biz Plan, Buy a Lottery Ticket
“Blog comment forms don’t need captchas. They need IQ tests.”
– James Iry (jamesiry) on Twitter
samples-and-tests/just-test-cases/test/DBTests.scal... →
pretty simple.
“Despite my misgivings, email is the cockroach of communication mediums: you just...”
– Coding Horror: So You’d Like to Send Some Email (Through Code)
“OpenID is for Authentication
OAuth is for Authorization to access data
XAuth...”
– Google Code Blog: Using XAuth to simplify the social web
Python Runtime Environment - Google App Engine -... →
quota matters.
Python Runtime Environment - Google App Engine -... →
“Oracle is very interested in improving that situation, making Java an even...”
– Oracle’s big bear hug for Java bodes really well | Developer World - InfoWorld
“Investors care about businesses; developers show them projects.”
– Do VCs Like Games? Gaming Startups and Investors - ReadWriteStart
Akamai’s Network Now Pushes Terabits of Data Every... →
bitte ein kuss →
“This “how to” approach is reflected in the design resources we find today. Soon...”
– The Dying Art Of Design - Smashing Magazine
“State your message in one sentence. That is your title. Write one paragraph...”
– Best Writing Advice for Engineers I’ve Ever Seen. Period.: Home
Sensemaking: How to blog insightful →
That app is Phat →
thechangelog:
We all know the Rails Can’t Scale line to be bunk, but that doesn’t mean we stop looking for ways to speed up Rails apps.
Mike Perham says his apps are Phat, and yours can be, too. Phat is a Rails app pattern that employs a single Thread, multiple Fiber model in Ruby 1.9 to async-ify an otherwise vanilla Rails app behind Thin.
Phat uses [rack-fiber_pool, Mark’s Rack Middleware to...