Just in case I don’t update or approve new comments for a few days, College Station is about to get hit by Hurricane Ike. We’re 120 miles inland, but still expected to get something approaching 70 or 80mph winds. The dogs are passed out and I’m putting together a bare …
Light on tech content today, sorry. It’s been a pretty boring day on the internets as far as new ways to do something in a scripting language goes.
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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 …
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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