General Discussion
Partial String Matching
Is there any alternative to LIKE '%...%' OR LIKE '%...%' in MySQL if you have to offer partial string matching on a large dataset?
Latest
CDN
Can you profit from the coming Content Delivery Network wars?
Playing like the big boys may be getting cheaper. The big boys, like YouTube, farm the serving of their most popular videos to a third party CDN. A lot of people were surprised YouTube didn't serve all their content themselves, but it makes sense. It allows them to
General Discussion
What qps should we design for in making a MySpace like site?
We are currently building a high traffic portal like myspace. What is the qps that we have to keep in mind and develop the site so that it can be scalable as the traffic grows?
Product
Product: Cacti
Cacti is a network statistics graphing tool designed as a frontend to RRDtool's data storage and graphing functionality. It is intended to be intuitive and easy to use, as well as robust and scalable. It is generally used to graph time-series data like CPU load and bandwidth use.
Strategy
Try Squid as a Reverse Proxy
This scalability strategy is brought to you by Erik Osterman: My recommendations for anyone dealing with explosive growth on a limited budget with lots of cachable content (e.g. content capable of returning valid expiration headers) is employ a reverse proxy as mentioned in this article. In the last week,
EC2
Running Hadoop MapReduce on Amazon EC2 and Amazon S3
Excellent article on using Hadoop in Amazon's services environment to solve real problems for very little money. It's excellent because it shows how the stack works together and it actually seems like something a real human could do.
General Discussion
Scaling IMAP and POP3
Just thought I'd drop a brief suggestion to anyone building a large mail system. Our solution for scaling mail pickup was to develop a sharded architecture whereby accounts are spread across a cluster of servers, each with imap/pop3 capability. Then we use a cluster of reverse proxies
Product
Product: Mashery
All APIs are different. At its core, an API provides direct access deep into a web service (lower case - a service that is provided on the web) and turns it into a Web Service (upper case) that people can use as a building block. What makes it an API
General Discussion
Multilanguage Website
Hi , someone can point me to some good resurce about how to bulid a multilanguage website ? the only resource i have found is this http://www.indiawebdevelopers.com/technology/multilanguage_support.asp thanks! p.s. great site ;)
Cluster File System
Product: MogileFS
MogileFS is an open source distributed filesystem. Its properties and features include: Application level, No single point of failure, Automatic file replication, Better than RAID, Flat Namespace, Shared-Nothing, No RAID required, Local filesystem agnostic.
Product
Product: Memcached
Memcached is a high-performance, distributed memory object caching system, generic in nature, but intended for use in speeding up dynamic web applications by alleviating database load. Danga Interactive developed memcached to enhance the speed of LiveJournal.com, a site which was already doing 20 million+ dynamic page views per day
Book
Book: Scalable Internet Architectures
As a developer, you are aware of the increasing concern amongst developers and site architects that websites be able to handle the vast number of visitors that flood the Internet on a daily basis. Scalable Internet Architecture addresses these concerns by teaching you both good and bad design methodologies for