design
This is a guest post by Benjamin Manes, who did engineery things for Google and is now doing engineery things for a new load documentation startup, LoadDocs. Caching is a common approach for improving performance, yet most implementations use strictly classical techniques. In this article we will explore the modern
distributed systems
Software design patterns are an emerging tool for guiding and documenting system design. Patterns usually describe software abstractions used by advanced designers and programmers in their software. Patterns can provide guidance for designing highly scalable distributed systems. Let's see how! Patterns are in essence solutions to problems. Most
General Discussion
Hi there, what do you think is crucial in the code designing of a scalable site? How does one prepare for webfarms and clusters (e.g. in PHP)? Thanks, Stephan