Dive into the archives.
- Twitter, Twitter, Twitter
It seems that yesterday and today were filled with various bits of Twitter. First, I added the Top of the Ticket blog to our various Twitter accounts at latimestot. I’m thinking about releasing the code for how I do it if I get approval. It’s pretty basic but could be useful for [...]
- Kevin Burton on scaling MySQL
Kevin Burton has posted his slides from the MySQL conference. It’s based on his blog aggregator, Spinn3r which uses MySQL in write-heavy processes instead of the usual read path.
- Some Thoughts on the Google App Engine
Everyone talked about the App Engine yesterday and folks seem to go in either of the extremes of loving it or hating it. I’ve seen conspiracy theories about giving Google access to your data but also how this could be the start of many simple applications that wouldn’t see the light of day without [...]
- Performance and Architecture Conferences
Looks like an action-packed couple of days at the end of June up in the Bay. First, there’s the O’Reilly Velocity conference and then on the 25th is Structure ‘08 conference. I’m not sure if I can go to either of them but they should be interesting.
- Starling
Blaine Cook from Twitter released Starling last week. He describes it as:
Starling is a light-weight persistent queue server that speaks the MemCache protocol. It was built to drive Twitter’s backend, and is in production across Twitter’s cluster.
I’m always a sucker for new infrastructure code but the problem is trying to figure out how to [...]
- Programming Collective Intelligence
I’m finally starting to make my way thru Programming Collective Intelligence by Toby Segaran. It’s been mocking me from my desk for the past weeks and I wouldn’t let myself pick it up until after a launch and after the holidays. Since both of those have passed (and yes I realize I haven’t [...]
