Posts
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Adding Simple Search to your Jekyll Blog
How to add simple search functionality to your Jekyll blog.
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Tech Talk: Scaling Twitter Core Infrastructure
A few scaling principles learned while scaling Twitter's infrastructure.
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Tech Talk: GOTO 2014 - Scaling Pinterest - Marty Weiner
The evolution of Pinterest's architecture and tech stack, and lessons learned.
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Tech Talk: Scaling Instagram with Mike Krieger
How Instragram scaled their infrastructure, and lessons learned.
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Scalability Patterns for Databases and Web Apps
Common patterns used to scale relational databases and web apps.
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Tech Talk: Drew Houston - Finding Your Way as an Entrepreneur
Drew's story of founding Dropbox, scaling up, and lessons learned.
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Database Types and Properties
A short intro to database types, ACID vs BASE, and data normalization.
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The CAP Theorem: a Brief Introduction
An introduction to the CAP theorem, it's proof, and a discussion of partition tolerance.
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Metrics Anthology 1: Metrics and Graphite
An introduction to common metrics services.
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Linux Signals and Process State
An overview of Linux signals, signal handling, and process states. And zombies!