Simon Willison’s Weblog

Queue everything and delight everyone. Les Orchard explains why I’ve been getting interested in queues recently: “One of the problems it seems most modern web apps face is the tendency to want to do everything all at once, and all in the same code that responds directly to a user.” 4th July 2008, 10:38 pm

libketama (via) A consistent hashing algorithm for memcache clients, from the team at last.fm. 20th April 2007, 6:50 am

Les Orchard: “Web 3.0 will have Galactica-style angled corners.” (via) Here’s hoping. 15th February 2007, 10:35 pm

An S3 AJAX Wiki. Les continues to innovate against S3. 22nd April 2006, 7:09 pm