Why’s it been so quiet? Why so many reading lists, and so little editorial? I’ve been doing consulting work like a madman — I’ve got some doggy stuff to pay for, I’ve got some expensive toys I need for a job next month, and I’ve got a day job to …
First, read this: The Answer is No @ The Big Contrarian.
In response: At least part of the problem is that we STILL haven’t defined the question. Is it that we develop a web application to solve problems in the most efficient and graceful way? Or is it that …
Continuing the thread of my earlier article on twitter’s architecture mistakes, Big Contrarian (new favorite weblog) made a post a few days ago that caught the SQL optimization report that Twitter leaked via it’s staging site, and then rapidly pulled down.
Ok, Biz Stone, you twit, you failed …
There’s enough changes in PHP 5.3 that they should probably have iterated a larger number … say php 5.5 or even bumping it to php6. They’re necessary changes, and bring in some long-needed tools like namespaces (and some that will cause some snobspurists to continue to pan the language, like …
I’ve been away in Peoria, Ill. without reliable internet access for the past week… so not much of a reading list this time. We’ll return to normal tomorrow.
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Many people have criticized Twitter’s uptime performance. For the geeks in the audience, this interview provides a good first-time-look at what they’re working with and what they plan to do to fix the problems. I’m rather shocked, actually. Brad Fitzgerald’s presentations on scaling Livejournal (pdf, 1.1MB) cover most …
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