November 2009
1 post
Let's talk about something incredibly geeky, the...
justinday:
If you’ve done any work on a highly scaled website the words ALTER and TABLE are probably two of the scariest words you’ve ever encountered. Nothing is worse than locking a really important and heavily used table for some undeterminable amount of time. Seconds turn into days, minutes into lifetimes. Okay that’s an exaggeration, but you get the idea.
There’s two techniques we use...
July 2009
1 post
“On the Web, producers have this delicious freedom to produce content as long as...”
– New York Times media writer Brian Stelter just published a great piece: Rise of Web Video, Beyond 2-Minute Clips.
In it, he chronicles something our head of content, Eric Mortensen, began noticing last fall: that shows with longer episodes, such as Nostalgic Critic and Momversation, were starting...
May 2009
4 posts
Popularity/Hotness algorithms - Reddit,... →
(via joshkinberg)
plugin-mysql_slave_status: mysql_slave_status -... →
“We “dark” launched the client a couple weeks before the inauguration, which...”
– Scaling Facebook Live Feed for the Inauguration | Engineering @ Facebook’s Notes
April 2009
2 posts
2 tags
“In my 3-day test, Dynect demolished the others. It was more consistent and had a...”
– Comparing Hosted DNS Providers (with Data!)
Amazon Elastic MapReduce →
Hosted Hadoop clusters
March 2009
2 posts
2 tags
nkallen's cache-money →
Write-through and read-through caching library for ActiveRecord — transparently uses memcache for record lookups & keeps new/updated objects fresh.
A+++ great shipping would do business again
8 tags
Open Files in Photoshop from Terminal
As I progress towards a pragmatic (and programmer’s) approach towards managing design files with version control, I needed a way to open files in Photoshop and other applications from the Terminal command line.
Since I am not a programmer, I decided to write a simple shell script to run my command. To do this (on a Mac), I created the file ‘psd’ in /usr/local/bin/ with the...