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Archive for June, 2008
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Wikipedia Super Site Setup
Posted on June 24, 2008 | No CommentsI tend to separate out infrastructures into two different beasts: A site, and a super-site. Super-sites get tremendous amounts of traffic (1 Gigabit+) and typically are associated with a brand, such as Amazon.com, Google.com, or what have you. On Slashdot today was a posting about... -
Load Balancing Troubleshooting Tools
Posted on June 24, 2008 | No CommentsEvery skillset has it’s tools. These are the basics of the vocation, and it’s tough to do your job without them. I have my own for load balancing, and they’re not what people typically expect. I’ve mentioned the somewhat unorthodox troubleshooting tools that I use... -
Wiki Mania
Posted on June 19, 2008 | 2 CommentsSo, I’ve been working on a Wiki. I’ve been working on this for a while (over a year, actually), and for a while I’ve been a little frustrated by my progress. However, I realized I was making a critical mistake: I was waiting to release... -
Postcards From The Application World
Posted on June 18, 2008 | No CommentsI came upon an interesting post by Leonard Lin, a developer and (according to Linked In) former Yahoo!-er. It’s called Internet Asshattery, Armchair Scaling Experts Edition, and talks about issues with scaling a rapidly expanding application infrastructure. Among the things I like about the article... -
New Survey
Posted on June 16, 2008 | No CommentsIt’s been about 6 months since the last load balancing/application delivery survey, so I think it’s high time we did another one. So here’s your chance to contribute to the questions: What do you want to know? Put your suggestions in the comments section below,... -
The Web Server Is Dead: Long Live The Application Server
Posted on June 7, 2008 | 4 CommentsI dare say there are very few web servers left on the Internet. I think you’d have to spend a considerable amount of time trying to actually find one. Now, given that you’re reading this on a web server, and there are obviously millions of...