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134 items tagged “scaling”

2007

Rails and Scaling with Multiple Databases. Ryan Tomayko explains how his team spreads a high traffic Rails application across five separate PostgreSQL databases by giving each client their own schema—similar to how WordPress MU scales.

# 14th April 2007, 2:32 am / wordpress, ryan-tomayko, scaling, rails, postgresql

None of these scaling approaches are as fun and easy as developing for Rails. All the convenience methods and syntactical sugar that makes Rails such a pleasure for coders ends up being absolutely punishing, performance-wise.

— Alex Payne, Twitter

# 12th April 2007, 2:51 pm / rails, twitter, scaling

Scaling Python for High-Load Web Sites. Slides from a talk at PyCon. Be sure to switch to the notes view (Ø in the bottom right)—a really nice overview of scaling up from a CGIs to load balanced, memcached Python application servers.

# 4th March 2007, 9:14 pm / memcached, python, scaling, pycon

Data::ObjectDriver. Benjamin Trott’s Perl ORM, with built in support for both caching and data partitioning. I think this is what Six Apart uses for Vox.

# 25th February 2007, 12:43 am / ben-trott, sixapart, vox, orm, perl, scaling

A brief update with some numbers for hardware load-balanced mongrels. 4000 requests/second on 48 mongrels behind a hardware load balancer.

# 5th February 2007, 12:38 am / mongrel, rails, scaling

At some point in the past rolling out an application to 300,000 people was the pinnacle of engineering excellence. Today it means you passed your second round of funding and can move out of your parents garage.

— Joe Gregorio

# 1st February 2007, 11 am / scaling, joe-gregorio

Inside MySpace.com. Case study of scaling against a network effect. Includes pretty honest coverage of the mistakes made along the way, although the article was put together second hand from conference presentations rather than from interviews.

# 17th January 2007, 9:18 am / myspace, scaling

2006

Curse launches with Django platform. Handles 500k visits/hour!

# 14th December 2006, 3:02 am / django, scaling, curse

The Architecture of Mailinator. 3 million e-mails a day on a 2GHz server with 1GB of RAM.

# 7th December 2006, 3:11 pm / mailinator, scaling

punupgeek.com on Active Resource. Looks like 37 signals might be looking in to scaling across multiple servers using web services.

# 26th June 2006, 11:12 am / activeresource, scaling, 37-signals, rails

2005

Ruby on Rails and FastCGI: Scaling using processes instead of threads. Relates to the shared-nothing architecture.

# 12th April 2005, 2:06 pm / rails, scaling, fastcgi

2004

Photo Matt: RSS Bandwidth Usage. Matt makes the case for RSS scaling just fine if you’re smart about it.

# 10th September 2004, 2:48 am / matt-mullenweg, rss, scaling, bandwidth

Transcript of Bruce Sterling at Microsoft Corporation (via) Bruce Sterling on scaling up his annual SxSW party. I can’t believe I missed it htis year.

# 22nd May 2004, 8:35 pm / microsoft, scaling, sxsw, bruce-sterling

New Technorati Infrastructure beta test! (via) It certainly feels faster

# 20th January 2004, 10:36 pm / technorati, scaling

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