March 2012
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@emson: @Basho have just announced #RiakCS -... →
January 2012
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3b / req / day + 100k apps * 1 year = 0% downtime... →
Sweet visual demo of responsive design →
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Impress.js: An awesome JS animation library for... →
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MongoDB: Graphs of write-lock →
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Riak examples: User timelines →
Mattmatt on github has released some sample code to store timelines in Riak with Ruby. A work in progress, but interesting none the less.
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@igrigorik: LatencyTOP looks like a *really* handy... →
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@Federico_II: Rackspace opensources continuous... →
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Testing AWS Elastic Load Balancers →
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Varnish Training →
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Graylog2: Dropping MongoDB…picking up... →
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MongoDB is web-scale →
MongoDB is Web Scale. Lulz, right? Turns out, Mongo is the first NoSQL to nail painless Hadoop and Pig integration…thus becoming the first ‘web scale’ database.
JVM Performance Tuning - Everything I ever learned →
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EM's for Fluid Designs →
November 2011
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Keep up to date with Chromium nightlys
Keep up to date with the latest Chromium builds on your Mac!
Monitoring MySQL restore progress with PV
pv or pipe viewer allows you to monitor the progress of data going through a pipe…really handy if you want, for instance, to monitor how far through a restore of a mysql backup is going amongst other things.
You should be able to install it with aptitude quite easily, though you may have to enable multiverse.
After you’ve done that, it’s super easy:
pv yourmysqlbackup.sql | mysql...
October 2011
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@agomey28: Money never sleeps why should I? Rise... →
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RethinkDB : Performance →
See how RethinkDB performs under a number of different workloads.
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RethinkDB →
A memcached compatible persistent & fast (~1 millions tps on commodity hardware) store.
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TokuDB (for MySQL) →
A new-ish storage engine for MySQL - supports some interesting tradeoffs and an fractal tree indexing.
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Mocks aren't Stubs. →
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Flashcache →
Flashcache is a simple Block Level Cache for Linux implemented at Facebook.
It is built as a loadable kernel module, as a Device Mapper client. It supports both write back and write through caching modes. Flashcache is pushed onto the storage stack under the filesystem, with the intent of caching disk blocks on SSDs. Linux kernels from 2.6.18 to 2.6.32 are supported.
The code is available for...
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Sed; an introduction to stream editing →
September 2011
36 posts
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Storm: Distributed and fault-tolerant realtime... →
Storm is a distributed realtime computation system. Similar to how Hadoop provides a set of general primitives for doing batch processing, Storm provides a set of general primitives for doing realtime computation. Storm is simple, can be used with any programming language, and is a lot of fun to use!
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“To grow new markets means making yourself uncomfortable. It means you...”
– Nilofer Merchant, http://blogs.hbr.org/cs/2011/09/what_steve_jobs_taught_me_abou.html
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Samurai payment gateway →
Simple pricing and some interesting features - massive fail (for now) that it is US only.
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SPDY →
Some interesting thoughts on some of the major benefits of SPDY
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“3,809 compute instances, each with 8 cores & 7GB of RAM. A total of 30,472...”
– http://arstechnica.com/business/news/2011/09/30000-core-cluster-built-on-amazon-ec2-cloud.ars
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Distributed systems with ZeroMQ & gevent →
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A million concurrent connections you say? →
The hacker news side of the story…
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Cache Reheating & MongoDB →
Some tips & hints about Cache reheating
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Percona Toolkit 1.0.1 released →
The successor to the popular Maatkit and Aspersa toolkits. Via http://www.mysqlperformanceblog.com/2011/09/07/percona-toolkit-1-0-1-released/
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TK: The biggest thing I learned from fundraising →
tawheed:
The biggest thing I learned from fundraising? Never assume anything about anyone. Well dressed seemingly well to do people with Brooks Brothers shirts wasted a ton of my time. Whereas people that hardly spoke English, or wore Walmart pants wrote big checks and gave amazing insight and advice about…
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“Are you a brilliant hacker with a penchant for showing off your skills, but no...”
– http://www.amiando.com/seedhack.html
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How a broken banking system is affecting UK... →
How a broken banking system is affecting UK startups & businesses - if you can’t get a merchant account, it’s a pain to take money.
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First employee of a startup / about to be? Read... →
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State machines - why don't we use them? →
Top Ten Annoying Startup Memes →
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Five email marketing practices you should read →
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Diginotar; Tor's response to the SSL debacle →
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Elements Of A Viral Launch Page →
Atomoco blog: Philosophy vs Speed. →
atomoco:
The original idea behind Bardot was that once you strip the fancy JS and CSS away, you were left with a semantically correct basic website, with the index file being just a list of thumbnails that were linked to an HTML file for the detail of each page.
That way, search engines could…
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Google+ Gets a +1 for Browser Security →
An interesting look at some of the ways Google+ is being make more secure
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“Unfortunately, people are not rebelling against Microsoft. They don’t know any...”
– Steve Jobs, Interview in Rolling Stone magazine, no. 684 (1994-06-16)
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An interesting branching model for git →
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AWK : 5 minute introduction →
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An interesting new way to practice and learn a... →
Learning languages chat-roulette style