Chris Bilson (@cbilson) had a good description regarding my post about Twitter’s scaling/architecture challenge.
“Kevin Rose and Leo Laporte tweet at the same time = crossing the streams”
I dunno if Proton Packs have exponential load challenges, but the end result for a server can feel similar. Is my post I pointed out that Twitter has to [...]
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Crossing the streams - large numbers of Twitter updates
June 29th, 2008 ·
Tags: Architecture · Blogging · Database · Micro-blogging · Microblogging · Social Networking · Software Development · Twitter · Web Services
Google Contact API finally here
March 5th, 2008 ·
Cart dropped a note about long anticipated API addition at Google (so long that most people forgot about they might even still be working on it). Google now has a contact API. This is huge news because up until now only Yahoo! offered a good synchronization service.
I’ve been a Yahoo! Address Book fan for years because of [...]
Tags: Database · Google · Software Development · Yahoo
Sun acquiring MySQL - Terrorism wins with the OSAMa stack
January 17th, 2008 ·
That’s a cheap dig, but I heard this news this morning and couldn’t resist. “Shockwaves” don’t describe it, but it’s a big shocker for the web dev community this week. What will it mean for those of us that implement MySQL? Probably very little actually.
Sun will keep it open and we’ll still [...]
Tags: Database
