Monthly Archives: April 2008
Cookie crumbles
On Monday’s front page of the Financial Times one could read “Google resolve crumbles on ‘cookies’ pledge“, an interesting piece on how earlier inquiries about the role of cookies in “behavioural targeting” had been gently pushed aside after the acquisting … Continue reading
On continuous production
Continuous production is an idea that’s probably as old as the first modern blast furnaces, an idea that decades of industrialization have perfected, an idea that has become all the more current in internet operations now that the mom-and-pop web … Continue reading
Posted in infrastructure, monitoring, production, technical
Tagged continuous production, release management
Leave a comment
Great overview of “traditional” web service scaling
Viewable on scribd, from the mysql 2008 conference.
Posted in architecture, database, scalability, technical
Tagged cache, memcached, mysql, scalability, sharding
Leave a comment
