Dive into the archives.
- Testing with Redis
Long time, no blog… But enough about that.
On the side, I’ve been working on a new aggregator, Aggir, which allows me to test various things. I started off using SQLite and Sequel for storage, put Solr behind the scenes for search and added a very simple Web UI using Sinatra and HAML. [...]
- Bridges to the Future
Kevin Matheny has written a really excellent piece at BusinessWeek, extolling the virtues of agile software development. I think it can be one of the toughest battles within a large organization but if you win and are allowed to be flexible, the benefits are easily more than any struggles you’ll have.
What this means for managing [...]
- Dynamic DNS
When I worked at CollabNet many moons ago, I used a laptop for my normal development but also used a desktop as a server for builds and testing things locally.
Since I worked from home, both were behind a router but I didn’t want to pony up money for a static IP so you [...]
- Your Weekend Reading
Bill de hÓra puts together a great list of links looking at XMPP for distributed computing.
- Cloud Architectures
The Amazon Web Services Blog points to a new white paper one of their engineers has written, dealing with Cloud Architectures. It’s a really good overview of the cloud that Amazon offers and it gets into the architecture decisions when building something for the cloud.
Cloud Architectures address key difficulties surrounding large-scale data processing. In [...]
- 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 [...]
