July 2011
15 posts
Jul 29th
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Anonymous asked: Hi Blake
Are you a happy person?
Jul 29th
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Jul 28th
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Jul 27th
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The testing lifecycle at LinkedIn →
Although the cycle looks pretty waterfally to me, I do like that “Hotfix” is included as a phase of the lifecycle. True, true.
Jul 26th
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How Flipkart Scales PHP →
I pretty much hate every single presentation I have ever seen on “scalaing PHP”. I hadn’t seen the approach described here taken before, so it was novel to me.
Jul 26th
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Callbacks, synchronous and asynchronous →
coderspiel: In the end it works, but imag­ine what hap­pens if callback-based APIs become pop­u­lar and every jar you use with a call­back in its API has to have its own thread pool. Kind of sucks. That’s prob­a­bly why Netty punts on the issue. Too hard to make pol­icy deci­sions about this in a low-level net­work­ing library. /cc Waffle, who said some of this before.
Jul 25th
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Jul 24th
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Anonymous asked: Blake just read your article on staircar, will you guys be open sourcing it? It sounds like a product I would love to use.
-Steve
Jul 20th
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Tumblr Engineering: Staircar: Redis-powered... →
engineering: Soon after I started at Tumblr all the way back in May, I was tasked with reworking our aging notifications system. A notification is the item that shows up in your dashboard, interleaved with posts, that tells you that another Tumblr blog reblogged or liked one of your posts or started following… Totally fun project to work on. And, if building scalable/fast services is...
Jul 19th
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“Ephemeral nodes are useful when you want to implement [tbd]”
– The Zookeeper Documentation, indicating that ephemeral nodes are useful for something, something, something, dark side. (Bonus family guy quote is free)
Jul 13th
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All That Is Interesting: The First Zombie-Proof... →
all-thats-interesting: Somehow, ritual drunk-conversation concerning team captains for the apocalypse has become a major part of the lives of 20-somethings. Having been matured in the Grandaddy-crowned masterpiece film (put “A.M. 180” on and forget that you have a job) 28 Days Later and the best-selling …
Jul 12th
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Jul 8th
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“Zuckerberg today: “Humans don’t understand exponential growth. If you fold...”
– http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=log2+%28%28distance+from+earth+to+sun+%29%2F+%28thickness+of+copy+paper%29%29
Jul 6th
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Jul 4th
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