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mike — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 20:43:59 +0000

Following reply by iljitsch van Beijnum about queueing delays in IP, looked to be a good little summary. The answer is that delay is only one aspect of performance, another important one is packet loss. As link bandwidth increases, queuing … Continue reading →

scaling web apps

mike — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 20:02:05 +0000

A little video, thin on detail of course, but hints at some home truths on building/designing scale-able applications (and i'd go so far to say that they are applicable to ALL applications not just webapps) http://joyent.vo.llnwd.net/o25/videos/LinkedIn-Bumpersticker-LED-Scaling-Rails.m4v Of course, I know Ben Rockwood like's his solaris and F5's - but that's not going to surprise many (and I just LOVE f5s) And here's a blog entry with the details on /how/ that's done:- http://www.joyeur.com/2008/04/18/the-wonders-of-fbref-and-irules-serving-pages-from-facebooks-cache . . . basically as simple as:-

when HTTP_REQUEST {
  if { [HTTP::uri] contains "/popular_something/list"} {
    HTTP::respond 200 content "<fb:ref handle='[HTTP::uri]'/>"
  } else { 
    pool facebook.application_server_pool
  }
}

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apache.org on solaris/SPARC

mike — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 20:22:55 +0000

Heh, who would've thunked it - apache.org is running solaris 10/SPARC and they even have http://www.apache.org/server-status open to everyone to be nosey too; just need to get my head around some of the linux IP tuning options for busy servers. Continue reading →

Microsoft bids $1.23bn for Norwegian search firm

mike — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 18:27:28 +0000

Oh interesting stuff there - I've always liked the idea of FAST (not cheap as a search platform) but they've certainly thought a bit about how to scale - will be interesting to see if this mean's a change to the supported platforms and roadmap moving forward

Wants to mine web with Fast buy

Microsoft is to acquire Norwegian business search engine company Fast Search and Transfer for 6.6bn kroner ($1.23bn).…
[From Microsoft bids $1.23bn for Norwegian search firm]

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