Unfortunately I don't think Cal Henderson's slides are online yet, going by http://www.iamcal.com/talks/ and the ETech site. Here's Dare Obasanjo's notes, though: http://www.25hoursaday.com/weblog/PermaLink.aspx?guid=2e03a43a-535e-49a1-afaa-b47eab5f71c2
Interesting to see the "minimum 3 platform" recommendation! Also interesting to get the (unwritten but suggested) point that having an API means that unit testing can become easier than scraping the HTML via web-test frameworks. A very good benefit of separating the API. I'd love to read more of this. -- anyone got a link to more transcripts? --j. Joshua Schachter writes: > Check the Livejournal presentation by Brad Fitzpatrick, the Flickr > presentation by Cal Henderson -- I found them very helpful. > > Joshua > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Hi, I was wondering if anybody could explain to me how how delicious > > is deployed (currently, but also before Yahoo acquired delicious, when > > this presumably was a much smaller operation)? I just know that there > > are multiple servers, but I'm not sure how the (MySQL) database and > > (Perl) processing is distributed among them. I thought this would be > > an interesting case study in the deployment of a highly available web > > apps, since there are lots of writes, aggregates are calculated across > > all users, and (it seems) all the data is in the DB, (e.g., how is the > > DB synchronized among all the servers?). > > > > I'd also be interested in hearing about what major changes occurred > > over time due to such scalability issues (i.e., how things started, > > and how they became the way they are today). > > > > (I'm trying to learn how scalability is achieved in real-world web > > apps in general, so any pointers to references on this matter would > > also be appreciated.) > > > > Thanks in advance. > > > > _______________________________________________ > > discuss mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://lists.del.icio.us/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss > > > _______________________________________________ > discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.del.icio.us/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.del.icio.us/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss
