#scaling
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GitHub’s Journey from Monolith to Microservices
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How many Heroku dynos do you need, and which size—An opinionated guide
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Instagram's platform is a monolith built in Python/Django
…we have hundreds of engineers shipping hundreds of commits every day. We deploy those commits continuously, every seven...Categories
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A Beginner's Guide to Scaling to 11 Million+ Users on Amazon's AWS
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Serve your Rails assets over S3 (and CloudFront) with asset_sync
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HireFire
Automatically “hires” and “fires” (aka “scales”) Delayed Job and Resque workers on Heroku. When there are no queue jobs,...Categories
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Scaling Cheddar
Lessons in scaling, including third-party that block, ETAGs and CDN usage -
Scaling PostgreSQL Performance Using Table Partitioning
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Handling Growth with Postgres
5 tips from InstagramCategories
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Starting your Startup
Lessons from Joe Stump on starting and growing a startupCategories
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Delegate or die
Whenever Derek Sivers (CDBaby’s CEO) was asked a question he gathered his team around, answered it, explained the...Categories
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notes on "how to clone delicious in 48 hours"
Perhaps it’s not quite as simple as it first seems. A useful list for consideration when building public services.Categories
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Anatomy of a Crushing
Lessons from the Pinboard team from the surge in interest when speculation began that Yahoo planned to drop DeliciousCategories
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elasticsearch
An interesting-looking schemaless, distributed, RESTful search engine, built on top of Lucene, with built-in support for...Categories
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Exploring the software behind Facebook
A wealth of useful info on all the components used to power FB.Categories
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On Designing and Deploying Internet-Scale Services
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Cassandra @ Twitter: An Interview with Ryan King « myNoSQL
How Twitter is using Cassandra, but also insights into how they develop and roll out new features.Categories
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Why I think Mongo is to Databases what Rails was to Frameworks
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Scaling Django
Detailed piece that focuses on Django but has lessons for everyone on scaling, caching, load balancing, queuing, sharding,...Categories
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That’s Not a Memory Leak, It’s Bloat
Detecting inefficiencies in Rails apps, in particular with ActiveRecordCategories