Simon Willison’s Weblog

Automating web site deployment at Barcamp Brighton. I’m determined to start using Fabric and proper deployment scripts for my personal projects.

# 2:16 pm / barcamp, barcampbrighton, deployment, fabric, gareth-rushgrove

How to Build a Popularity Algorithm You can be Proud of. Filed for future reference.

# 9:25 pm / algorithms, popularity

Petabytes on a budget: How to build cheap cloud storage. Explains how Backblaze can operate an unlimited backup service for five dollars a month—their custom storage hardware stores 67 terabytes for $7,867.

# 9:27 pm / backblaze, backup, storage

svnpubsub.py (via) A Twisted/Python powered comet API for pushing out Subversion commits, built for Apache Foundation projects.

# 9:50 pm / comet, python, subversion, svnpubsub, twisted