129 items tagged “scaling”
2007
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
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
2006
Curse launches with Django platform. Handles 500k visits/hour! # 14th December 2006, 3:02 am
The Architecture of Mailinator. 3 million e-mails a day on a 2GHz server with 1GB of RAM. # 7th December 2006, 3:11 pm
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
2005
Ruby on Rails and FastCGI: Scaling using processes instead of threads. Relates to the shared-nothing architecture. # 12th April 2005, 2:06 pm
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
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
New Technorati Infrastructure beta test! (via) It certainly feels faster # 20th January 2004, 10:36 pm