Dinner for Schmucks was awesome. Just wanted to see a good comedy, laughed my butt off. I had no idea Jemaine from Flights of the Conchords was in it and he was brought just as much ridiculousness as Steve did. Go see it.
September 17, 2010
September 10, 2010
Android Lighting a Fire Under Apple
Competition is good… still don’t like how subjective they are with their App Store policies, but this stuff is a good leap in the right direction.
September 9, 2010
September 9, 2010
High Scalability - High Scalability - How did Google Instant become Faster with 5-7X More Results Pages?
Wish we could just get a peak…
September 9, 2010
September 9, 2010
Amazon EC2 Micro Instances
Looks like this may be Amazon’s response to the likes of Rackspace’s cloud, where you can get VMs around $12/mo + bandwidth, which is about what one of these would cost per month, however these have more RAM at 613MB. Anyone try one out yet?
http://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2010/09/09/announcing-micro-instances-for-amazon-ec2/
September 9, 2010
pgmemcache
A PostgreSQL API based on libmemcached to interface with memcached… this thing looks promising.
Here are some reasons I’m excited about finding this:
- Setup functions in Postgres that call the memcache methods
- Set these up to perform on triggers, or just call them as needed at the application level
- Use it to invalidate cache on the slave database server rather than when it’s first inserted into the master database, prevents an “orphaned” cache (inconsistency)
Read more about it here: http://goo.gl/FKon
September 8, 2010
September 8, 2010
Scaling Disqus - DjangoCon 2010
Some great info how Disqus scales their system to over 17,000 req/sec.
Slides: http://www.slideshare.net/zeeg/djangocon-2010-scaling-disqus
Notes: http://viewtext.org/?url=http://www.slideshare.net/zeeg/djangocon-2010-scaling-disqus
Hat tip to AJ Bourg for posting this on Twitter earlier.
September 7, 2010
Excerpt from Theo Schlossnagle’s tech talk:
Switch configurations should be in version control.Router configurations should be in version control.Firewall configurations should be in version control.System configurations should be in version control.Application configurations should be in version control.Monitoring configurations should be in version control.Documentation should be in version control.Application code…
