Items in Jun, 2011
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We can deploy new versions of our software, make database schema changes, or even rotate our primary database server, all without failing to respond to a single request. We can accomplish this because we gave ourselves the ability suspend our traffic, which gives us a window of a few seconds to make some changes before letting the requests through. To make this happen, we built a custom HTTP server and application dispatching infrastructure around Python’s Tornado and Redis.
— Dan Manges, Braintree # 30th June 2011, 9:27 pm
The New Heroku (Part 4 of 4): Erosion-resistance & Explicit Contracts. I really like Adam’s description of Software Erosion—I’ve seen that happen to my projects a bunch of times, and it really is an important problem to solve. # 29th June 2011, 5:26 pm
What tech conferences are upcoming in San Francisco?
We have a pretty good list here: http://lanyrd.com/places/san-fra...
[... 23 words]What are some site/app options for event recommendation/discovery?
Our site http://lanyrd.com/ recommends events (conferences, meetups, expos, guest lectures etc) based on who you follow on Twitter. In my opinion it works extremely well in suggesting events that would be a good fit for you.
[... 51 words]Visualizing WebKit’s hardware acceleration. Command line flags for launching Safari (and the iOS simulator) in a way that highlights areas of the screen that are being hardware accelerated—particularly useful if you are using the “-webkit-transform: translate3d(0,0,0)” trick. # 27th June 2011, 10:31 am
What are the best conferences about startup in 2011 (2nd semester) ?
We have a list of upcoming startup events here: http://lanyrd.com/topics/startups/ ( http://lanyrd.com/topics/startup... lists just the ones in the USA)
[... 39 words]Are any major tech conferences held in San Francisco in August or early September?
Dreamforce (the Salesforce/Cloud computing conference) is pretty huge—30th August to 2nd September: http://www.salesforce.com/dreamf...
[... 48 words]What are some other conferences similar to Velocity?
Surge (28-30 Sept 2011 in Brooklyn) has a very good reputation: http://omniti.com/surge/
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