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 […]
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 […]
So I went to RubyConf, I went to Ajax Experience, stopped in to Milwaukee on the way back to see a friend, and am finally home and back into the swing of things. It was a long trip with some nasty red-eye flights, and the day before I left I found out I had […]
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