Chris Wanstrath helped scaling gamespot
had to turn off gzipping to avoid burning the cpus
3000 req/seconds
50M pages in the day, no downtime
Chris is a sloppy programmer (jk)
a distributed hash with no each or keys – just get and set
written in c – fast
at first – you dont need memcached – YAGNI
unless you really do need it [...]
Since getting in Portland I haven’t much time to sit down and think or really write, but here’s a quick brain dump, as I have like 4 blog entries queued up that I’m finishing…
portland is a great city
ive walked like 10 miles since Monday
portland is kind of like a bigger madison, with about 10x as [...]
I’ve created a RailsConf google map with some things near the convention center that attendees might be interested in.
I have some local restaurants, brew pubs, Powells, the bike rental place, a mac shop, the Jupiter hotel, and a couple coffee shops.
Any suggestions for additions? Or maybe its publicly editable? I’m not [...]
Lately I’ve wanted to deploy locally to my mac using Capistrano. Not for actual deployment locally, but to test some custom tasks I was working on. Its a lot quicker and safer to run custom tasks against a local sandbox then some real server somewhere. Writing real tests for custom tasks is [...]
I’ll be in Portland for a week, for Rails Conf plus a few days of vacationing. Would anyone be up for a meetup or hackfest Wednesday night, maybe just to have a few beers and kick things off?
Man of Action Dr Nic doesn’t sit around waiting for things to happen. He makes them [...]
Great thread on the memcached list. Facebook has 200 dedicated memcached servers, all 4 core boxes with 16 GB ram. Thats serious hardware. Having to scale to that size is a nice problem to have.
All the online APIs for Ruby and Rails suck. Thats been a given for a long time. Note that I’m not talking about the actual Rails Rdoc content itself - the doc project patches continue to roll in, and the HackFest also saw many doc patches merge in. The Ruby Rdoc content, [...]
As Google has grown to take over the world and all of your search, it still retained some semblance of personality and quirkiness. As much as any multi national multi-billion corporation can, anyways.
Maybe 2007 is the year that stops, though. Google recently renamed Froogle to “Google Product Search”, and the Google [...]
I can has baby?
Mila Caroline Sanheim was born last Monday, April 23rd at 9lbs, 6oz, 21 inches long. She is very cute, very strong, and will definitely kick your ass. She has been destroying us lately (well, my wife moreso) by demanding food every hour on the hour from about 2am to 6. [...]
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