Pinboard: bookmarks for sstrudeau tagged 'scale'

filamentgroup/Responsive-Images - GitHub
image images javascript mobile responsive responsivedesign technique sizes scale device
august 2011 by sstrudeau

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Marak/hook.io - GitHub
node scale events cluster
june 2011 by sstrudeau

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Building Large-Scale jQuery Applications
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december 2010 by sstrudeau

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Code as Craft » Batch Processing Millions and Millions of Images
imagemagick processing stats photos images scale
july 2010 by sstrudeau

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High Scalability - High Scalability - Facebook's Memcached Multiget Hole: More machines != More Capacity

When more machines != more capacity. Interesting case.

memcached memcache multiget hole scale capacity
october 2009 by sstrudeau

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Cassandra Project

basically Amazon Dynamo meets Google BigTable. Written by the guy who did much of the work on Dynamo, for Facebook. "highly scalable, eventually consistent, distributed, structured key-value store"

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august 2009 by sstrudeau

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NeverBlock

not exactly sure - an event-based library for concurrent ruby programming, I think

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april 2009 by sstrudeau

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Anti-RDBMS: A list of distributed key-value stores | Richard Jones, Esq.
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january 2009 by sstrudeau

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From the Department of Badly Chosen Defaults - Joel on Software

make scaled images not look like ass in IE by using this css rule

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december 2008 by sstrudeau

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Drizzle Wiki

Drizzle is a MySQL 6 fork designed to be stripped down as much as possible and designed to scale out easily. UTF-8 / InnoDB by default; no stored procs, triggers, views; multi-node shards. Looks worth watching.

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august 2008 by sstrudeau

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A Bunch of Great Strategies for Using Memcached and MySQL Better Together | High Scalability

Good article on how to think about using memcached in a variety of scenarios

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august 2008 by sstrudeau

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Scaling on EC2 « WebMynd Blog
ec2 scale cloud ha scalability architecture
july 2008 by sstrudeau

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Varnish - Trac

"Varnish is a state-of-the-art, high-performance HTTP accelerator." ... "Varnish was written from the ground up to be a high performance caching reverse proxy." -- think Squid, except designed only as a reverse proxy

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july 2008 by sstrudeau

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Load Balancing & QoS with HAProxy - igvita.com

using HAproxy to "fairly" balance requests received up front by nginx.

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july 2008 by sstrudeau

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nginx

very light weight http server (think lighttpd) -- can also be configured as a load balancer

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july 2008 by sstrudeau

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Dissecting today's Internet traffic spikes - Esoteric Curio

'Understanding what is and isn't "premature" is what separates senior engineers from junior engineers.'

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june 2008 by sstrudeau

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The new internet traffic spikes - O'Reilly Radar

"The old rule of 70% utilization accommodating an unexpected 40% increase in traffic is unraveling. At least eight times in the past month, we've experienced from 100% to 1000% sudden increases in traffic across many of our clients."